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  • dataramadatarama@hachyderm.io
    Oct 6, 2026, 7:04 PM

    @jwz A while ago, a guy from Anthropic quit over fears that he was working on something that would kill all humans, and it made headlines that the other Anthropic guys also thought that. One of them even said that he believed that the chance of AI eradicating human life within the decade was "about 10%".

    So my 70-year-old mum came over for a visit, and she had some very concerned questions to her computer scientist son. They were:

    1. "Where do they get those percentages from? Do they just make them up, or do you think they have their chatbot make them up?"
    2. "How can the lead researcher for Anthropic be someone who looks like his biggest worry should be whether his parents have packed his school lunch?"
    3. "Are the staff at Anthropic swindlers, or are they actually mentally ill?"

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  • dataramadatarama@hachyderm.io
    Oct 6, 2026, 7:20 PM

    @jwz She then thought it over, and remarked that if she was "CEO of an AI cult" (her choice of words), she'd look for employees who looked like they weren't doing well and seemed to have a foot out of the door already. Then she'd discreetly offer them 20 million dollars in cash to leave with a public story about how the tech is so awesome it's soon going to become a science fiction machine overlord.

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  • dataramadatarama@hachyderm.io
    Oct 17, 2026, 12:33 PM

    @GinevraSun @Heidentweet @jwz Whenever I've heard that annoying line, "so easy your mum could use it!", I ask either "ah, so it's programmable in Forth?" or "right, it's poorly documented and requires machine-level programming?".

    (My mum is who taught me to code - a very long time ago. She was never a professional programmer or anything, she just did it for fun, and (correctly) figured it'd be fun for me too.)

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  • perdidonavidaperdidonavida@mstdn.party
    Oct 7, 2026, 5:55 AM

    @datarama @jwz I insist with my suspicion that their money is running out and all this buzz about ai "going rogue" or being an extinction threat to humanity is a scheme to justify slowing down their businesses while hiding their financial crisis from investors, so they won't panic and cashout, leading to the bubble poping right now

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