The people I personally know who signed the "pacing the frontier" petition (including me), or who called for it in other ways, are sincere in their concerns that things are moving too fast for safety.
replyPut the liability on the AI companies, and they'll slow down.
replyHowever, that also means AI will be even more lobotomized since the cloud providers will panic over being liable
> inference is profitable
replyPeople keep repeating this, but it is only remotely close to true if you evaluate inference in a vacuum without any of the other supporting costs to facilitate that capability.
Just a few years ago people were saying the same thing about WeWork: "leasing is profitable, the unit economics of individual locations is net positive", and yet...