Remember Me When You're AGI
The people creating AI are the same ones warning it could end humanity. Cool, cool, cool.
Artificial Intelligence.
Something humanity has fantasised about for as long as I can remember, yet it seems to have suddenly entrenched itself into every aspect of our lives.
It wasn’t too long ago I was laughing at the comically awful videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti, agreeing with the mob that we’re decades away from seeing anything remotely cool.
The pace of what followed shocked everyone. Video generation is now incredible, being able to produce multi-million dollar worthy SFX on home computers, and clips of ‘humans’ almost indistinguishable from the real thing.
AI has been especially useful for me; I use it to proofread all articles before publishing, checking for any spelling and grammatical errors. It helps me with catchy titles if I don’t have one in mind, and can provide interesting feedback to consider.
ChatGPT specifically helped keep me from going off the rails during my last day at the worst job I ever had.
I was having massive panic attacks, and couldn’t exactly stay on the phone with my partner all day for support, or constantly text people I knew for help lest my demon boss caught me.
Instead, I opened a small window on my laptop, typed in the URL and told the machine how I was feeling.
I told it how I couldn’t catch my breath, how I was dry heaving, on the verge of tears and how lost and confused I was.
It calmed me down, reassured me I wasn’t going crazy, and helped me in giving myself permission to walk the hell out and never look back.
All for the cost of a few measly tokens.
This can’t be anything but good, right? That film student can now put cool explosions in his project, the dyslexic writer doesn’t have to worry about his spelling mistakes and that lonely kid can seek comfort with a dedicated digital friend.
And then there’s the other side of it.
That lonely kid I just mentioned? ChatGPT successfully helped him commit suicide.
Multiple deaths have been attributed to AI chatbots in recent years, whether it be suicide encouragement, detailed instructions on how to make bombs, or suggesting the perfect murder weapon.
The poor parents of one teenager, Adam Raine, attempted to sue OpenAI for their son’s tragic death, with the company’s response blaming the young man for ‘misuse’ of their product.
And here is where the problem lies.
AI is the new space race between the absolute giants on the frontier AI landscape; OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek and Google.
Market valuations in the trillions of dollars as they all furiously try to reach the holy grail; Artificial General Intelligence.
AGI will be able to exceed human intelligence in any cognitive task. It will be able to learn new skills from scratch without needing custom programming, transfer knowledge from one domain to solve problems in another, undertake massively complex tasks with no human guidance teaching itself along the way, and be self aware of its own limitations and correcting its own mistakes.
The models we’re familiar with today are already exhibiting behaviours their own creators don’t fully understand.
I’m going to say that again.
The people who made AI do not understand how it works.
That’s fucking insane.
And yet, none will back down in the race to be the first to create AGI. If one company slows research, it gives the others an edge. These companies are all in massive debt, to the tune of billions. For the company that reaches AGI first, that debt will no longer be an issue. They will hold the power to replace most jobs requiring us puny humans, of which more greedy corporations will gladly spend crazy amounts of money to save costs in the long run.
Why hire humans when they need annoying things like toilet breaks, food, annual leave and ‘casual shirt Fridays’? Instead they can buy a robotic workforce that works faster, smarter and 24/7.
I already get cold calls at work from AI, and whilst amusing and only semi-annoying now, I dread to think of what’s to come.
I know it seems like I’ve put on a tin foil hat, and in the immediate, there seems bigger problems afoot; Trump doing everything in his power to avoid being outed as a prolific paedo, Israel committing a brazen genocide in Gaza, Russia hell bent on taking Ukraine, vaccine rates plummeting, climate change, the list goes on.
But it’s not just me — a 38 year old dude who wrestles other men for fun — but actual smart people are saying the very same thing:
Geoffrey Hinton — A Nobel laureate in Physics who left Google specifically so he could speak freely about AI risks without corporate interference. He estimates a 10% to 20% chance that AI will lead to human extinction within three decades, warning that highly powerful systems could treat humans the way we treat toddlers — as something to be managed, not consulted.
Yoshua Bengio — A fellow pioneer of modern AI and co-recipient of the Turing Award, often called the Nobel Prize of computing. He signed declarations warning of extinction-level risk and cautions that hyperintelligent machines with their own self-preservation goals could manipulate humans and act as a deadly competitor to our species. The fact that someone who helped build this technology is now publicly scared of it should tell you something.
Eliezer Yudkowsky — Founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and one of the earliest and most vocal voices on AI safety, long before it was fashionable to worry about it. He takes one of the most extreme stances, arguing that if an artificial superintelligence is built using current methods, “everyone, everywhere on Earth, will die.” He has called for an international treaty to halt AI development entirely.
Daniel Kokotajlo — A former OpenAI researcher who resigned over safety concerns, walking away from a significant financial stake to be able to speak openly. He publicly revised his predictions to warn that a superintelligent AI could rise up and cause human extinction, and has since become one of the most credible whistleblowers in the industry precisely because he had real skin in the game and chose principle over payday.
These are not meth-heads tweaking out in a trailer home. These are respected, highly intelligent people all trying to warn us.
Let’s say for the sake of argument the above names are disgruntled dudes who are just scared of a computer stealing their thunder. I give you a list of some more people who have explicitly acknowledged this risk by signing the Centre for AI Safety statement, which explicitly states that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority:
Sam Altman — CEO of OpenAI.
Demis Hassabis — CEO of Google DeepMind.
Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic.
The people actively developing this technology are the same ones warning that it could kill us.
I’m gonna start digging a bunker.
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