@jalefkowit @emilymbender and @alex write about this in their book, The AI Con. Doomerism helps make everyone overestimate the capabilities of this ridiculous software.

@jalefkowit it's fear

@jalefkowit “We’ll make good on the promises not kept by Big Tobacco!”

@jalefkowit @fsinn

Indeed.

It makes more sense when you realize they aren’t selling it to customers this way; they’re selling it to investors. “Come get in on the ground floor of the most fantastically powerful technology ever! We are not making this up!”

@jalefkowit If their AI really kills me, I'll be haunting the shit out of their office building.

@jalefkowit Do they mean because the "accident" is that we're going to ne out of wor?

@jalefkowit I think "AI" companies invite this sense of danger. Here's their pitch: if the technology will either usher in a utopia, or destroy us all, then you'd better invest in the company holding the reins.

@jalefkowit And, also, anyone trying to fly on a plane in the US today is getting a crash course (pun intended) regarding why putting AI where it isn't necessary is a shitty idea.

@jalefkowit so what I’m hearing them say is “we’re all nihilistic sociopaths actively trying to destroy the world. You should arrest us all, shut down our companies, and destroy our work”

Which… ok, I’m good with that.