{"id":38931,"date":"2023-07-06T13:29:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T18:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38931"},"modified":"2023-07-06T13:29:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T18:29:05","slug":"it-takes-power-to-go-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/07\/06\/it-takes-power-to-go-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"It Takes Power To Go Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Either that or gravity, anyways. <strong><em>WaPo<\/em><\/strong> has an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2023\/07\/05\/ai-apocalypse-college-students\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_most\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> on the concerns in academia WRT artificial intelligence:<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body grid-center grid-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">To prevent this theoretical but cataclysmic outcome, mission-driven labs like DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to build a good kind of AI programmed not to lie, deceive or kill us. Meanwhile, donors such as Tesla CEO Elon Musk, disgracedFTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, Skype founder Jaan Tallinn and ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin \u2014 as well as institutions like Open Philanthropy, a charitable organization started by billionaire Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz \u2014have worked to push doomsayers from the tech industry\u2019s margins into the mainstream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">More recently, wealthy tech philanthropists have begun recruiting an army of elite college students to prioritize the fight against rogue AI over other threats. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openphilanthropy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open Philanthropy<\/a>\u00a0alone has funneled nearly half a billion dollars into developing a pipeline of talent to fight rogue AI, building a scaffolding of think tanks, YouTube channels, prize competitions, grants, research funding and scholarships \u2014 as well as a new fellowship that can pay student leaders as much as $80,000 a year, plus tens of thousands of dollars in expenses.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">For such a long article, I thought it was striking that there no mention of energy and how it relates to AI. Given that AI <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/09\/03\/and-the-purpose-of-all-that-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sucks down power<\/a>, much like cryptocurrency, it&#8217;s worth remembering that wars aren&#8217;t just about land, but about energy as well.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">AI may result in our demise &#8211; not chased down like rats by our Terminator successors, but by each other in our jealous competition to feed the maws of our AIs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Either that or gravity, anyways. WaPo has an article on the concerns in academia WRT artificial intelligence: To prevent this theoretical but cataclysmic outcome, mission-driven labs like DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to build a good kind of AI programmed not to lie, deceive or kill us. Meanwhile, donors \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/07\/06\/it-takes-power-to-go-boom\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38932,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38931\/revisions\/38932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}