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David GerardMA to TechTakesEnglish · 25 days ago

Jacob Coxon: how to run an AI doomsday media campaign

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Jacob Coxon: how to run an AI doomsday media campaign

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David GerardMA to TechTakesEnglish · 25 days ago
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The AI doomsday is the idea that one day, an artificial intelligence will get so smart it takes over the world! And it’ll kill all the humans, just as a side effect! Pretty scary, huh. You might be…

to keep you talking about Skynet — not the data centre down the road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3IoTZNN6iM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260910-jacob-coxon-how-to-run-an-ai-doomsday-media-campaign - podcast

time: 6 min 20 sec

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    Never heard of him and can’t find him in the archives of SneerClub or TechTakes just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Christiano

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      He was once Dario Amodei’s roommate. He also cofounded the Alignment Research Center (funded in part by a sizable FTX donation), which spun off METR, the organization Cotra now works at.

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