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If the nuclear power or life sciences people were putting out press releases saying "our product may kill us all", they'd be dragged into endless Congressional inquiries.

by nfujd72 hours ago|

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Wasnt the Oppenheimer story basically that?

by pjc5037 minutes ago|

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There was https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2019/09/12/the_fear_th... , but that was (validly) dismissed by other scientists working on it, and also wasn't a discussion that was happening in public because the entire program was secret.

"This will kill a lot of (other) people" was explicit in the building of the bomb, but then so was the entire war effort.

by mikrl6 hours ago|

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I honestly don’t know what anyone expected given all the labs started building self-driving malware at about the same time.

I remember lots of people talking about running agents in VMs or on whole dedicated machines, yet barely anyone talking about how they were using mundane OS access controls.

by verdverm2 hours ago|

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> level of anti-AI sentiment out there in the world.

I'd caution about projecting Western Ai attitudes onto the rest of the world. Some countries are very excited and optimistic about the future it brings, cultures and circumstances give rise to differences in opinions.

One of many results showing a similar pattern, largely bifurcated along "the west" vs "the rest", or "modern economies" vs "third world" ("common terms" used even though I'm not a fan of them)

https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report/publi...

by chneu2 hours ago|

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Even in the western world most anti-ai sentiment ends on social media.

People are anti-ai cuz it's easy. They say something, repost or like something, and they're anti-ai. Then they turnaround and use AI in their email or calendar or to make funny pics or whatever. They watch AI generated content and engage with it.

Anti-AI is pretty NIMBY. People want AI, they just don't want AI data centers in their area or to give up their use/privilege.

by esseph1 hours ago|

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> Even in the western world most anti-ai sentiment ends on social media

No. There's a lot of local regulations being enacted to prevent datacenter builds.

by verdverm1 hours ago|

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While I agree that it goes beyond social media, I don't believe your statement is evidence to such. I would call that more the manifestation of anti-Ai sentiment wherever they pick it up.

I suspect it's popular because it has been a long long time since The People felt like government had been responsive, so they are doubling down, ad nausium