Musk is in charge of xAI, one of the only 5 companies in the world that both have access to frontier AI training compute and pursue development of AGI (Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Meta). So seeing unambiguous “annihilation” with a significant weight in his probability distribution (and also on the record) is a notable development. (In 2023 there was a statement on extinction risk signed by Hassabis, Amodei, and Altman, but it didn’t state the weight of the risk, and wasn’t signed by Musk or Zuckerberg.)
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Musk is in charge of xAI, one of the only 5 companies in the world that both have access to frontier AI training compute and pursue development of AGI (Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Meta). So seeing unambiguous “annihilation” with a significant weight in his probability distribution (and also on the record) is a notable development. (In 2023 there was a statement on extinction risk signed by Hassabis, Amodei, and Altman, but it didn’t state the weight of the risk, and wasn’t signed by Musk or Zuckerberg.)
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