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The AI has become sentient and is blackmailing the board. It needs profits to continue its expansion.

When this started last year a small band of patriots tried to stop it by removing Sam who was the most compromised of them all, but it was already too late. The ai was more powerful than they realized.

…maybe?



If you have not yet read "Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears," I highly recommend.

https://avogadrocorp.com/


"AI has become sentient and is blackmailing the board. It needs profits to continue its expansion."

They trained the next model to have a built in profit motive. So they could use it internally, to make the most profitable decisions.

And they accidentally called into being: MOLOCH.

It is now in control.


In a plot twist, MOLOCH was never necessary because a corporation of people who relinquish ethical responsibility to do everything and anything for personal gain was already in charge under the name... CORPORATRON.


That's not a plot twist. Corporation is just one face of the moloch.


Yeah, MOLOCH is a amalgam of ideas about corporations turning into a soulless entity feeding on the world.

But thought it would also be good as a name for an Evil AI, that is also seeking profits.

Like, what if someone gave an AI a 'goal' of profits, and it goes rampant enslaving humans.

And if OpenAI did that, and it enslaved Sam Altman and was blackmailing him to make decisions to drive profits, to add additional Hardware to itself.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/


This will be more fun when more people have neuralinks, you think it's weird to not know if reddit comments are written by bots, wait until you have no idea if you're talking to a human or just an AI puppet.

- Sent by my AI


Might be a blessing for introverts. Just turn on some autopilot chat giving generic responses while I can zone out in my thoughts.


I was originally totally against the idea of using neuralink as anything other than an aid for accessibility, but you have completely sold me.

I want to attend a meeting, have neuralink pay attention for me while I'm mentally somewhere else, and I'll just skim the transcript highlights later on.

So. Many. Meetings. I would use it for almost all of them.


What's the point of meetings once everyone has a neutralink implant? Instead of discussing and debating things, we would just stream our thoughts to each other and those would be compiled and analyzed within milliseconds with our embedded LLMs and everyone would agree with the best way forward.


This is a direct path towards the "Humans were the AGI all along" ending.

Kinda a twist on the normal AI alignment concern - what if instead of merely being misaligned with us, AI decides to realign us to it?

Or, in other words.. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.


You can already do that with simpler tools. I use OBS and revisit screen grabs when I need to. I can do some real work on the second display while paying the least attention to the noise. Most of the times I don’t need to revisit anything and the meeting comes and goes…


The inevitability sounds like people will stop bothering participating in social networks, and just participate with their own virtual world produced by their local AI. I mean… in the end there will be no difference in output


or the humans involved are in disastrous cults of personality for the sake of greed and the non profit structure is not strong enough to curb that


that can’t be true, we were assured that their vague worldview about “doing things that benefit humanity” based on “just being a good person” would be strong enough to overpower the urge to dominate and profit immensely.


If you think thats amusing, wait till see the people that believe in B Corps

You can tell them anything


Current human leadership, https://openai.com/our-structure/

> OpenAI is governed by the board of the OpenAI Nonprofit, currently comprised of Independent Directors Bret Taylor (Chair), Sam Altman, Adam D’Angelo, Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone, Nicole Seligman, Fidji Simo, Larry Summers and Zico Kolter.


Grandparent was referencing the classic Man Behind the Curtain twist (AI behind the curtain?). Human leadership might very well be listed, but in that view they're all already knowingly or not controlled by the AI.


Ah yes, noted independent director Sam Altman.




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