SAFETY

Violence is not the answer. Boycott is the answer. This one’s easy. There is ample evidence that Altman is a dishonest person with inordinate power that we should not trust. But the way forward to is get the board to remove him, not to throw bombs at his house. Humanity must take the high road. The way to take the high road is to stop using his products, in protest of his implied openness to mass surveillance, his mass IP theft, and his company’s opposition to liability for their actions. When people stop using ChatGPT, Altman will have to go; it’s simple as that. Quite possibly the COO or CFO will step in, and we (and OpenAI itself) will all be better off. Dean W. Ball (@deanwball) The guy who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail through Sam Altman’s window seems to have been an adherent to pause/stop AI. I am entirely unsurprised and have been warning about this for a long time now. I am fine with people advocating for their preferred policies—if that includes a “pause” on AI development, so be it, even if I disagree strongly. But the obvious reality is that the rhetoric of this community—which to be *extremely clear*, is a very small and non-representative subset of the AI safety community—is closer to ecoterrorism than it is to a more typical activist policy effort. Every time I have written about existential risk in recent months, I have been called a mass murderer. People with ⏹️ and ⏸️ in their handles confidently tell me that I am murdering my own baby boy and every other child on the planet. Another prominent one of these people has called me a traitor to America. I only use my own examples because I know them; this rhetoric is representative of how this fringe of the AI safety world communicates with everyone. The rhetoric of the pause/stop crowd is out of control and it has gotten worse with time. This rhetoric always had the potential to cause violence and now this seems to be no longer hypothetical. — https://nitter.net/deanwball/status/2042782724440612952#m

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