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i never know what to do with this type of post. like. ok! you're scared. maybe you should stop then. what do you want me to do about it

The Washington Sun@washingtonsun.com

A string of hacks is fueling a new sense of urgency to regulate AI. “I have never seen so much concern,” one former industry consultant said.

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Just pushing one's face closer and closer to the leopard's mouth, thinking, well, it will never happen *to me*. Someone would obviously stop me from doing this if it would.

I do think this is another instance of professionals realizing that the market cannot provide the right incentives, but that individual action doesn't do much about the incentive structure either. Imho, we should be linking it to other such failures (climate especially) and advocate for socialism

The professionals are in a strange bind: their alignment with capital is crucial to their class position, relative privileges etc, but that is simultaneously far more obviously self-undermining than it used to be. I know some of this stuff is just advertisement, but some of it is confusion that

suggests political change is immanent. And a scared middle class tends to radicalize to the left or right, so idk, we better figure out how to make it not be to the right?

“No we’re scared of it, buuuuuut we still need more compute power somehow to make it safer and to make everything more expensive and light money on fire.”

Like the aircraft carrier stories from yesterday, the real audience for this story is like 20-30 people who can do something, but the rest of us get to tag along for the ride

The researchers work for the labs and normally if you stop doing your job they fire you? They are trying to do politics rather than persisting with the fantasy that individual researchers have leverage over their employers.