AI Bro’s terrified singularity will strike while Trump is president

With Donald Trump the definitive winner of the 2024 electionsthe artificial intelligence brethren seem both excited and terrified that the technology will achieve human-level intelligence – or beyond – under his second presidency.

Despite the president-elect’s confused-sounding statement that “super duper AI‘ is ‘alarming and frightening’ during a podcast appearance last summer, many think with his running mate J.D. Vance and money man Elon Musk at the helm of AI policy, relaxed regulations could lead to artificial general intelligence (AGI) being introduced during Trump’s second term.

Whether that is good, bad or neutral depends on the perspective of the commentator.

“By many estimates,” OpenAI employee Steven Heidel cryptically tweeted“Trump will be the AGI president.”

On Reddit, things seemed a lot more black and white, as AI bros lamented the idea of ​​world-changing technology emerging under the tenure of a politician motivated with little understanding of technical topics and largely motivated by grievances, power, and abuse of power. score settlement.

“There is zero chance that AGI will occur during what increasingly appears to be Trump’s second term as president,” a spokesperson said. user posted on r/Singularityapparently before Kamala Harris relented. “If ever there was a combination of circumstances that screamed the apocalypse in giant neon letters, this is it.”

“Guys like Elon and (Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) will have a say in AGI if it gets accomplished under Trump,” another responded. “There’s no real good way to spin this. I’d rather have uncontrolled AGI.”

If yet another user pointed it outIt is all the more troubling that Vance is within a stone’s throw of the presidency because he is being energized by infamous ideologue Peter ThielWHO told a crowd recently at the University of Cambridge that he is more concerned about government regulation of an impending AGI than about the technology itself.

Remarkably, Trump has already stated it that he plans to rescind outgoing President Joe Biden’s restrictions on AI — making the prospect of the technology running wild under his time in office all the more real.

Of course, this entire prospect hinges on the actual development of AGI over the next four years – a timeline that even Thiel would likely reject based on his own predictions about the technology’s development.super dominant“In a few decades.

But if so, as another user noted in a since deleted post on r/SingularityTrump’s second term could “shift the future of (artificial superintelligence) toward (a) dystopia, not a utopia.”

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