Altman has already signed the CAIS Statement on AI Risk (“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”), but OpenAI’s actions almost exclusively exacerbate extinction risk, and nowadays Altman and OpenAI even downplay the very existence of this risk.
I generally agree. But I think this does not invalidate the whole strategy—the call to action in this statement was particularly vague, I think there is ample room for much more precise statements.
My point was that Altman doesn’t adhere to vague statements, and he’s a known liar and manipulator, so there’s no reason to believe his word would be worth any more in concrete statements.
X could also be agreeing to sign a public statement about the need to do something or whatever.
Altman has already signed the CAIS Statement on AI Risk (“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”), but OpenAI’s actions almost exclusively exacerbate extinction risk, and nowadays Altman and OpenAI even downplay the very existence of this risk.
I generally agree. But I think this does not invalidate the whole strategy—the call to action in this statement was particularly vague, I think there is ample room for much more precise statements.
My point was that Altman doesn’t adhere to vague statements, and he’s a known liar and manipulator, so there’s no reason to believe his word would be worth any more in concrete statements.