Two dire warnings, one from Terence Tao, the other from someone who just quit Anthropic

Part I: Terence TaoBack in fall of 2024, Terence Tao, perhaps the most respected living mathematician, was eager to learn about what AI could and could not do. Although he was skeptical of the then recently-released o1, he was optimistic about a future in which humans and machines co-existed. Matteo Wong had great interview with Tao about this in The Atlantic:Wong spoke to Tao by phone and summed up Tao’s openness to new futures this way:Marcus on AI is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Lately, as I noted in a Substack here in August, Tao has been raising questions. At the end of July he gave a great lecture, with this among his slides. He’s...

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