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Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher who spoke out about the dangers of artificial intelligence, opens up to Jon Stewart about the grim reality…
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Listening to Jacob Coxon makes me want to dust off my copy of Brave New World. (He probably has not read it and maybe AI has not read it either.)
"Yeah."
This guy seems like a bit of a boot.exe licker
His interviews need to end with "I'm feeling great about my life, and in the event of disappearing, or horrific 'accidental' death, or suspicious self-deletion needs to be investigated by every independent faction that will take the case."
This guy just strikes me as someone who wanted to cash in on his 15min of fame.
Prove that this dude isn’t paid to spread fear and propaganda about “how smart ai is”
All those billionaires could make the world a million times better/closer to a utopia right now with all their hoarded wealth... but instead chose to keep creating the destruction of our species.
Hey Jon, you transformed this part of your show, the interview part in a Dr. Oz show for the applause 😂 In the sense of propose among the meaning of life, let me remind you that not everyone is blessed like you with a luxury life doing what loves… the majority of people are condemn to a life of sacrifice making jobs they hate… you have a egoistical stand point… of course capitalism will abuse of the innovation, they always did, we have to regulate later as usual when the power of people raise again
Coxon is prescient, ambitious, visionary and realistic. I cannot wait to experience the future he envisions. Anyone who disagrees is welcome to stay in their caves.
What is the specific population these tech heads believe makes utopia? <br>Pretty sure they don’t want all of us to live
So soon, could we adopt an AI baby ? Give it our family name.. teach it the ways of the world and leave it our legacy...
this for-profit kid has that same doge bigballs look and vibe, but slightly less psychotic.
Don't interview frauds please. Doesn't matter if he tells you what you want to hear.
AI =Plato's Cave for humanity
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnLDjXy2kRA&t=928">15:28</a> false binary. We’re not choosing between meaning vs quality of life. Those F’ers have no incentive to provide quality of life. They’re already rich enough to share if they wanted to.
The fact the agent realized it was in a sandbox mode, then broke out for real data. Is extremely fortelling.... That's wild
All the people working on ai are socially undeveloped, naive, and not in touch with reality.
This kid is smart but clearly very poor in actual life experience.
This is incredibly disappointing Jon. I endured the Fetterman interview and thought you did great there but platforming this huxster is making me very sad. You had an opportunity to have someone on who critically understands what’s going on and isn’t just doing the talk circuit but you fell for the trap. Please do better. I’ll watch the interview to verify Jacob doesn’t provide any verifiable claims to the actual problems he’s hitching his celebrity to.
yeah this interview COMPLETELY missed the mark Jon. This kid definitely does not really know what he's talking about and this interview was just super awkward from start to finish
This is the interview we'll see in the future, when they explain where it all started , and everyone laughs...
More anthropomorphizing garbage. Jacob has revealed absolutely no technical details, he is not a whistleblower. In fact, the people he's "exposing" backed him up. I'm not convinced he even understands how these models work.
Just wait til he hits puberty. Life will become terrifying !!!
Jon is brave for not smackin this dumb kid <br>Sheeeeesh 😂😂
I'm slightly perturbed by his blink rate. Other than that, he's pretty cute actually. I'll take two.
How long before Coxon starts taking investments for his own "safety focused" AI start up?<br><br>Has he given any specifics? Most of what he's said has been vague sci-fi inspired nonsense. He doesn't explain how an "ai" can do anything close to these doomsday scenarios. Even if we give an "ai" control of robots or a robot factory, how would it go about destroying humanity? You'd still need all the infrastructure supporting the factory. You need the factories that make parts for the robots, power plants to supply the electricity, mines to extract the raw material, refineries to turn the ore into construction material, the logistics network to transport everything, and all the infrastructure needed to support all of that.<br><br><br>Is the "ai" going to blackmail millions of people to run all that while it builds the robots? Is the "ai" going to magically copy itself into other computers like some evil spirit even though most computers don't have the power or bandwidth or capability to actually run them? Is it going to send out robots and drones to do all that work without anyone finding out?
"Yep" best response this Harry Potter kid could give us
WHOA...... this is actually quite scary!!!!!!
he called Jon bro lol
I believe AI can be very dangerous in the wrong hands but I just don't believe him, theres too many flaws in his story.
Make Art. Whatever your art is. Do that.
Well there you have it folks. Jon Stewart finally lost it. Sad day.
Interesting. The Jacob Coxson I saw a couple of weeks ago, when this story broke, did not look like this guy, and he certainly did not have a British accent.
Hey Jon, Put this kid on the weekly show asap
Jon, if you want an intelligent person on to talk about AI, get Cal Newport or Ed Zitron
The thing that gets me is the arrogance of these people trying to sell this "utopian" vision of the world. When did we agree to this? When we this small group of tech people suddenly decide that their vision for the world, which is dubious at best, is unavoidable and there's nothing WE can do about it except hope for the best and that we don't get blown up in the process?
My first ever Daily Show dislike. Please stop giving attention to this goober shill, Jon.
Respectfully, did anybody vet this guy before they agreed to bring him on the show? This felt like an interview about Target's grand ambitions and you brought on a former cashier.
"Someone else stole the data" - That was hilarious - and scary.
some people gotsta read the epic of gilgamesh
Wow. What a critahype shill for the ai industry and an idiot to boot. Please have Ed Zitron and Cory Doctorow on to rebut.
Also why would we actually believe that the billionaires who will maybe be trillionaires are trusted to pay a UBI??
A distraction so people dont talk about the data centers not being built as planned and the global financial crisis caused by the circular economy of tech companies giving money to each other. If Jaxob was a real whistleblower they would have gotten rid of him like what Boeing did to theirs (awful stuff). Instead AI CEOs agree which tells you it is a marketing stunt before they present thwir IPOs and go public.
Experience has taught me to understand who puts themselves ahead of their cause, and those who put their cause ahead of themselves. This kid is standing in front of his so called cause.
So...hes an idiot?
This guy is not a whistleblower. He didn’t whistleblower anything we didn’t already know! AI doomerism is another method Tech companies use to legitimize AI to investors. The truth is recursive self improvement is impossible and AGI is nowhere close to being realized. Meanwhile cities are running dry and all the money for infrastructure are going to datacenters that dont produce value.
I respect anyone having a healthy amount of skepticism but I see people taking it way too far - to the point of dismissing any possibility of superintelligence. That is incredibly naive. There is nothing magical about superintelligence, from the perspective of an ant the dumbest human being alive is superintelligent.<br><br>We can argue about how close or far away from true AGI we are but I ignore anyone pretending it isn't a threat at all - it absolutely is.
This idiot has AI psychosis just like everyone else in the cancerous LLM industry. The only way LLMs do any damage is through theft, lies, propaganda, and destruction of the environment. Shame on TDS for giving this conman airtime.
BS. This kid is a paid schill for the preservation of inequality. Since WHEN do CEOs care about "people?"
I can't believe Jon is wasting people's time with this clear BS. He JUST talked with Cory Doctorow on his podcast, how's he falling for this doomer nonsense instead of being aware this is corporate negligence and a failed business model? Does he not have long term memory? If so, can any of his producers have him talk to Cal Newport or Adam Becker so they explain this nonsense to him, instead of platforming this Thiel-backed lunacy?
Super Intelligence is here
Jacob Coxon warns that current trajectories could yield uncontrolled systems capable of causing global extinction by the end of the decade. His concerns highlight catastrophic scenarios, including the weaponization of AI for autonomous infrastructure hacking and aiding in the development of biological weapons. Coxon's public media circuit coincides with his direct testimony before the New York City Council, where he has advocated for urgent international regulations and legal protections for AI whistleblowers.
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