Statement on AI Risk
The issue I take with these kind of "AI safety" organizations is that they focus on the wrong aspects of AI safety. Specifically, they run this narrative that AI will make us humans go extinct. This is not a real risk today. Real risks are more in the category of systemic racism and sexism, deep fakes, over reliance on AI etc.<p>But of course, "AI will humans extinct" is much sexier and collects clicks. Therefore, the real AI risks that are present today are underrepresented in mainstream media. But these people don't care about AI safety, they do whatever required to push their profile and companies.<p>A good person to follow on real AI safety is Emily  M. Bender (professor of computer linguistics at University of Washington): <a href="https://mstdn.social/@emilymbender@dair-community.social" rel="nofollow">https://mstdn.social/@emilymbender@dair-community.social</a>