{"id":13369,"date":"2024-02-17T07:38:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T06:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/17\/humanitys-remaining-timeline-it-looks-more-like-five-years-than-50-meet-the-neo-luddites-warning-of-an-ai-apocalypse\/"},"modified":"2024-02-17T07:38:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T06:38:22","slug":"humanitys-remaining-timeline-it-looks-more-like-five-years-than-50-meet-the-neo-luddites-warning-of-an-ai-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/17\/humanitys-remaining-timeline-it-looks-more-like-five-years-than-50-meet-the-neo-luddites-warning-of-an-ai-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Humanity\u2019s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50\u2019: meet the neo-luddites warning of an AI apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the academic who warns of a robot uprising to the workers worried for their future \u2013 is it time we started paying attention to the tech sceptics?<\/p>\n

Eliezer Yudkowsky, a 44-year-old academic wearing a grey polo shirt, rocks slowly on his office chair and explains with real patience \u2013 taking things slowly for a novice like me \u2013 that every single person we know and love will soon be dead. They will be murdered by rebellious self-aware machines. \u201cThe difficulty is, people do not realise,\u201d Yudkowsky says mildly, maybe sounding just a bit frustrated, as if irritated by a neighbour\u2019s leaf blower or let down by the last pages of a novel. \u201cWe have a shred of a chance that humanity survives.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s January. I have set out to meet and talk to a small but growing band of luddites, doomsayers, disruptors and other AI-era sceptics who see only the bad in the way our spyware-steeped, infinitely doomscrolling world is tending. I want to find out why these techno-pessimists think the way they do. I want to know how they would render change. Out of all of those I speak to, Yudkowsky is the most pessimistic, the least convinced that civilisation has a hope. He is the lead researcher at a nonprofit called the Machine Intelligence Research Institute in Berkeley, California, and you could boil down the results of years of Yudkowsky\u2019s theorising there to a couple of vowel sounds: \u201cOh fuuuuu\u2013!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nFrom the academic who warns of a robot uprising to the workers worried for their future \u2013 is it time we started paying attention to the tech sceptics?
\nEliezer Yudkowsky, a 44-year-old academic wearing a grey polo shirt, rocks slowly on his office chair and explains with real patience \u2013 taking things slowly for a novice like me \u2013 that every single person we know and love will soon be dead. They will be murdered by rebellious self-aware machines. \u201cThe difficulty is, people do not realise,\u201d Yudkowsky says mildly, maybe sounding just a bit frustrated, as if irritated by a neighbour\u2019s leaf blower or let down by the last pages of a novel. \u201cWe have a shred of a chance that humanity survives.\u201d
\nIt\u2019s January. I have set out to meet and talk to a small but growing band of luddites, doomsayers, disruptors and other AI-era sceptics who see only the bad in the way our spyware-steeped, infinitely doomscrolling world is tending. I want to find out why these techno-pessimists think the way they do. I want to know how they would render change. Out of all of those I speak to, Yudkowsky is the most pessimistic, the least convinced that civilisation has a hope. He is the lead researcher at a nonprofit called the Machine Intelligence Research Institute in Berkeley, California, and you could boil down the results of years of Yudkowsky\u2019s theorising there to a couple of vowel sounds: \u201cOh fuuuuu\u2013!\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the academic who warns of a robot uprising to the workers worried for their future \u2013 is it time we started paying attention to the tech sceptics? Eliezer Yudkowsky, a 44-year-old academic wearing a grey polo shirt, rocks slowly on his office chair and explains with real patience \u2013 taking things slowly for a …<\/p>\n

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