AI doomerism will recede from public consciousness because frequent release of AI models shows that they are harmful in prosaic, rather than existential, ways
If I'm being honest, my immediate reaction to the news that Sam Altman had been fired as C.E.O. of OpenAI was something like ... relief? Threads: @technicallymims . Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to Threads: Christopher Mims / @technicallymims : this is the best summary I've ever seen of why so many people within tech touted AI doomerism which on the surface is a strange thing for people building and funding AI to do tl;dr - profit motive brilliant stuff (as usual) from Max Read https://maxread.substack.com/ ... Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life@mas.to : I agree with Max Read's take that the OpenAI drama is the end of mainstreaming of AI doomerism. Doomerism was convenient for cynical players, including Sam Altman, to attempt to co-opt governments into slowing down their competitors. …