🔬 Science 1d ago · Joe Wilkins

Chinese Government Dismisses Tech Billionaire Calls for an AI Slowdown as “Fear-Mongering”

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Chinese Government Dismisses Tech Billionaire Calls for an AI Slowdown as “Fear-Mongering”
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In a whiplash-inducing turn away from the mythical quest to build human-level artificial intelligence, Western tech billionaires like Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk are now joining hands to call for a massive slowdown of the tech’s development.



The commentariat is divided on what exactly this means — for some, it’s proof-positive of a genuine threat that AI could spin out of control and exterminate everybody. To others it’s a smokescreen, a thin cover provided by AI

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