None explicitly, but the argument that “AI companies drum up the idea that AI can kill everyone for marketing” has emerged a lot after the moratory open letter, seeing how many signatories are in one way or the other involved in the industry. There’s also plenty of examples of employees at least admitting that existential risk from AI is a thing.
That’s the issue though, “the clergy, the politicians, the historians” have not heard of these people, so it’s barely better than totally random people saying it in their view.
If a major company said this on the record, that’s different, because everyone’s heard of Microsoft or Google, and their corporate credibility, reputation, etc., is in aggregate literally worth millions of times more than even the most influential individual who has signed on so far.
None explicitly, but the argument that “AI companies drum up the idea that AI can kill everyone for marketing” has emerged a lot after the moratory open letter, seeing how many signatories are in one way or the other involved in the industry. There’s also plenty of examples of employees at least admitting that existential risk from AI is a thing.
That’s the issue though, “the clergy, the politicians, the historians” have not heard of these people, so it’s barely better than totally random people saying it in their view.
If a major company said this on the record, that’s different, because everyone’s heard of Microsoft or Google, and their corporate credibility, reputation, etc., is in aggregate literally worth millions of times more than even the most influential individual who has signed on so far.
I mean, the open letter made front page news. And there’s been a few mainstream news stories about the topic, like this one from CBS.
How does that relate to the perception by “the clergy, the politicians, the historians”?