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4 months agoThe risk of intelligence coming from LLMs is zero, let alone superintelligence.
The danger isn’t some computer mind deciding to destroy us upon its birth. It’s the everyday harm CEOs are doing to the working class and future students by using AI as an excuse to cut jobs and force paid products into education and the hands of young workers at the expense of their own skill development.
I honestly don’t know what to do, and I don’t think anybody does. Coworkers, other professionals, therapists—there is no consensus.
I fucking love development. I went to computer camp and decided I wanted this career at age 10 before I even understood it was a possibility.
I want to be paid to know things. Not to supervise a guessing machine and guide it like a sycophantic lost puppy.
I cling to the hope that AI companies will burn through their revenue and will implode under their own infestors’ demand for ROI before they truly have something that wipes away the entire profession. I am a terrible gardener.