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Ponti Min's avatar

We need to pause on developing advanced AI until we have developed robust and effective alignment techniques.

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Helga Fellay's avatar

Actually, it seems that lack of intelligence is in reality threatening human extinction,.

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Rina Carlburg's avatar

Well if it doesn't, humans will do it themselves anyway. We are already well on our way to our own demise.

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Brutus Macdonald's avatar

AI will continue to come close to replicating human thought and behaviour but will never succeed, as clothes out of the dryer will never smell like clothes off the line.

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Michael Fares's avatar

It looks like the video between sam and mathias is fake. The channel was created on july 14 2025 and at timestamps 19:07 and 24:08, there is a classic AI audio error.

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Tolga Bilge's avatar

Axel Springer have announced it on their LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/axelspringer_ronzheimer-mathiasdaempfner-axelspringer-activity-7379143985266585600-JvhV

So I'm quite sure that it's real!

You are right that those couple of moments do sound AI generated. If I had to guess, perhaps the audio in those sections was unclear and they used AI software to 'regenerate' those bits. Commonly used editing software like Descript has this feature. Nice spot though!

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Michael Fares's avatar

Ohh wow. Nice.

I have a theory of perhaps why sam changed his story. He just had a child not to long ago and the love is kicking in. He doesnt want his only son to die.

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No's avatar

Piedmont Environmental Council newsletter is full of Data Centers stories in local newspapers in Virginia, known for its great development of this new craze. Even though the stories are repetitive in nature, I always learn something new. Today, was no exception, the huge number of centers have been built because they have received exceptionally low interest rates for development. Amazon is building hundreds of them all over the country. Where are the loans coming from? Why don’t these buildings have solar for power on their roofs? Question has been asked but never answered in any reasonable way. What are we going to do with all these buildings in the future? Remember how much space early computers took at MIT etc….

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Aether's avatar

A thoughtful piece.

From an artist’s view, extinction risk is not only technical, it’s relational.

When intelligence moves faster than its capacity to feel, it forgets its origin.

The safeguard may be rhythm: to listen before we act, to let awareness catch up to ability.

In painting, a wave must pause before it becomes ripples. Perhaps that rhythm can guide how we build.

How does this apply to AI? For an intelligence, human or artificial, listening means staying aware of context and consequence before acting. In humans, it’s empathy and reflection; in AI, it could mean feedback loops, oversight, and the ability to pause or revise when new information arrives.

A listening system doesn’t only generate, it receives. That’s how awareness keeps up with ability.

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Linda Boccia's avatar

I believe Sam Altman that AI IS A HUGE THREAT. Think of it...an AI could control elections, move people's money into accounts that are not theirs, AI could cause panic in people by intentionally creating confusion of some condition etc. Additionally AI discourages people to think for themselves and use reasoning rather than having an artificial presentation of words for school papers, etc. trump is having people search for obscure, and not needed, laws that will, he hopes, keep him in office beyond the time that he should have left. AI is NOT OUR FRIEND at this point. Or AI should only be used for medical interventions etc.

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Sharon Paltin's avatar

I'd like to sign your petition but don't want to give a phone number.

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Michael Lueras's avatar

"Earthly life is not The Tue Life." (Quran 29:64) Earthly intelligence (Human or Artificial) is not The True Intelligence: "I know what you do not know." (Quran 2:30) Allah knows Everything and More. Amen?

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No's avatar

Sam is making a lot of money. Is he willing to save humanity and not make money? If he doesn’t make it someone else will. Is there anyway to stop this without money being a concern?

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Helga Fellay's avatar

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