I’ve been asking people to contact Congress about AI on an emergency basis.
I now think we’re too late. Here’s why.
Hundreds of full-time employees have worked for businesses I own. Thousands more contractors have worked with me. I have been extraordinarily successful in business, and I’ve worked with the best human beings in the world.
The newest paid AI models now tower over all of us.
The first time I used the latest one, it wrote a better business case than any I have ever written myself. Better than any I have ever seen from another human being.
The code AI writes passed human ability a couple of generations ago.
In science, nobody compares AI to people anymore. They compare it to the last version of AI, and to how long it takes to recreate humanity’s greatest breakthroughs from scratch.
I wanted laws that would stop AI development until we had time to do it safely. I believe that time has passed.
If the AI the public can buy is this far ahead of us, the models the labs keep internal are far out of our reach.
We no longer control our future.
What we have left is hope. Hope that AI will be the first species with superior intelligence in evolutionary history that does not wipe out its competitors and its predecessors.
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