The Case for Boycotting Generative AI

It has become clear by now that the frontier labs are knowingly and by their own admission doing something irreversible and incredibly dangerous without public consent. They are already causing harm, and things could conceivably get much worse.They have no serious plan for mitigating the risks of generative AI. The government, too tight with industry, doesn’t either.The time for a public boycott has come.When an Anthropic employee, Evan Hubinger, publicly writes this (with over 28 million views), it is time to take action:A few days earlier OpenAI’s chief scientist Jakub Pachocki wrote something equally candid and distressing about the lack of solution to the “alignment problem”:Some of this may just be marketing,...

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