With the OpenAI clownshow, there’s been renewed media attention on the xrisk/“AI safety”/doomer nonsense. Personally, I’ve had a fresh wave of reporters asking me naive questions (as well as some contacts from old hands who are on top of how to handle ultra-rich man-children with god complexes).
Emily Bender has been one of the loudest voices saying the danger of machine learning is Right Here Right Now, with algorithmic rent setting and policing systems, facial recognition, & military tools. She’s been shouting from the rooftops that the people talking about “AI Safety” are the same assholes firing actual AI ethicists and selling ML products for evil, while claiming that AI safety is about stopping the paperclip maximizer, because that way they can pretend to have invented AGI.