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Latest X refugee. A person. Currently interested in Ai to save public services and foster knowledge. Which, let’s face it, is problematic.
4. Yes, it could be marketing. Yet the pace of progress and the recent eval breakthroughs suggest we should, be watching the situation.

If you want an excellent summary of why this tone shift is signal we best pay attention to, here is @emollick.bsky.social www.oneusefulthing.org/p/prophecies...
Prophecies of the Flood
What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
www.oneusefulthing.org
January 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
3. While they have clear reason (money) to hype, it is not really in that tone. Many posts have an uncomfortable 'wake up' feeling. It is hard to verify the facts of the situation, hashtag#AI is one of the few industries where an economic apocalypse is proof of success.
January 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
2. The industry now feels it is a done deal and is resetting goals to create ASI, 'superintelligence'. This sentiment is all over X accounts from people working in AI labs.
January 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
11) the timeline on autonomous killing shrinking
12) the likely obsolescence of international conflict law
December 22, 2024 at 11:40 PM
8) the destabilising of already shaky geopolitics
9) the beginning of a new AI first era in the global arms race
10) a possible geopolitical split into distinct AI research blocs—Europe and the US on one side, China and other partners on the other
December 22, 2024 at 11:40 PM
5) the death knell on the trad military industrial complex, and its replacement by and AI driven variant
6) the end of the pacifist influence in Silicon Valley, war is just another 'sector' to disrupt
7) tech hype marketing disguising itself as saber rattling (mostly anti-Chinese)
December 22, 2024 at 11:39 PM
It reps:
1) a Presidency won and captured by tech billionaires
2) the strategic return on investment for those who supported Trump with data and dollars
3) a power shift from East to West coast
4) the first nation (US) to switch to an AI first military and military doctrine
December 22, 2024 at 11:39 PM