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OpenAI's Sam Altman to Brief UN Security Council Next Week reuters.com

wewewedxfgdf34 minutes ago

I find it very hard to understand the things these AI CEO's say.

He will probably get up there and say his companies products will destroy every citizen of their countries.

laxd28 minutes ago

Shocking publicity is good publicity. And "my product is so potent it will probably destroy you." I think I´ve heard it from drug dealers as well.

EA-316713 minutes ago

It’s a great way to sign up young men for military duty too, sell it to them like it’s something exciting and awesome… and they can’t handle it.

kelseyfrog18 minutes ago

Smells of, "You can't handle my potions. They're too strong for you."[1]

1. https://genius.com/Justin-kuritzkes-potion-seller-annotated

cpcabbge16 minutes ago

Why these bug eyed salamanders have any say at all for any of this is beyond me. He's a tech ceo who wants to make money, nothing more.

nba456_8 minutes ago

I thought you meant the UN at first and was about to agree. They should have no say about US tech.

dyauspitr5 minutes ago

He’s rich, in charge of a pretty significant company that has made history and continues to do so.

hfc567 minutes ago

Who do you think designed central banks?

Bankers or politicians or the plebs?

These kind of meetings are to create common vocabulary/seed common frameworks across the world for problems all govts are seeing or expecting on the horizon.

einarfdan hour ago

He will probably tell them exactly what they want him to say. If he means it or not. That is hard to say.

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mlnj13 minutes ago

When has anyone faced scrutiny over their lies to these politicians?

ks204840 minutes ago

The founder of Loopt is now ruling the world.

cloche32 minutes ago

The guy had a failed startup and somehow leveraged that into the situation today.

IncreasePosts15 minutes ago

I imagine his time at ycombinator as Gríma Wormtongue whispering into theoden's(paulg's) ear

bogzz32 minutes ago

The LARP proceeds unabated.

edoceoan hour ago

If governments regulate AI and make it slow down, does that let one get out of data center contracts?

dgellow23 minutes ago

If OpenAI voids its spending commitment, the bubble has to pop. I know the market is irrational, but that would be the clearest top signal ever

pluc37 minutes ago

How's AI doing in Russia with all the sanctions and whatnot?

ACCount3914 minutes ago

The AI industry in Russia is not doing well. Domestic AI models exist, but they aren't exactly high performers, and many of them are based on the open weight Chinese models - so there is very little reason to use them. IT power users run Western or Chinese models, often through proxies, VPNs or resellers.

AI is being adopted and used, but if there was ever a chance of Russia being an AI power, it died in 2022.

A few formerly-Russian IT companies had their "rainy day" HQs overseas, and leveraged them to slip the noose and leave Russia - brain draining what AI expertise was available in the country. See: Yandex -> Nebius.

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free_bip32 minutes ago

They have access to all the same open models that the rest of the world does, so just fine I would think.

dgellow25 minutes ago

They also access American models via proxies. Same as China

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osiris97010 minutes ago

Are we still pretending models aren't cyber capable, and will be an immense force for hacking? I expected this shit on reddit not here. You don't have to like Sam, and still not do this bullshit

bogzz6 minutes ago

The fearmongering is based in the notion that the LessWrong fanfic is coming true as we speak, not LLMs being used as tools for hacking.

wg0an hour ago

The private equity debt time bomb is here. Then there is the bond market.

And then guaranteed bust of AI bubble. 2000 billion dollars for a single company? That too when bottom of the boat has been drilled by open weight Chinese models that are cheaper and good enough but can even be deployed locally?

In face of all that - that kind of return is not realistic.

However - good gimmick scaring UN asking for a ban on Chinese models perhaps.

tracerbulletxan hour ago

The UN is not a body that would be involved in banning models from a specific country, and even if they were China is one of 5 members with permanent veto power.

api23 minutes ago

Only way to justify those valuation is if they can achieve regulatory capture and outlaw competitors and open models.

Expect the fear mongering to escalate to a fever pitch.

The UN has no authority to ban anything but it's a good platform.

ahartmetzan hour ago

A great marketing opportunity for Grifty McGriftface.

verdverm38 minutes ago

A friend him called Uncle Sam Alternative-man, thought it was accurate and clever

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