Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD
2,206 posts
Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD
@DrTechlash
Communication Researcher, analyzing the tech discourse.
Book Author: The TECHLASH. Substack: aipanic.news
Signal: DrTechlash.16
- Replying to @MetaNewsroomIn Hebrew, *Meta* means *Dead* The Jewish community will ridicule this name for years to come.
- "A Taxonomy of AI Panic Facilitators" A visualization of leading AI Doomers (X-risk open letters, media interviews & OpEds). Some AI experts enable them, while others oppose them. The gender dynamics are fucked up. It says a lot about the panic itself. Your thoughts?
- The "AI Existential Safety" field did not arise organically. Effective Altruism invested $500 million in its growth and expansion. - Part 1:
- In early July, Epoch AI estimated that 33 models had been trained with at least 10^25 FLOP. So, here's your REMINDER that the doomers asked to ban/restrict models above 10^21 FLOP (Conjecture), 10^23 (CAIS, ControlAI), 10^24 (GovAI), then 10^25 (FLI, PauseAI, ICFG). They viewed
- 🚨 Effective Altruism's Bait-and-Switch: From Global Poverty to AI Doomerism 🚨 The Effective Altruism founders planned – from day one – to mislead donors and new members in order to build the movement's brand and community. aipanic.news/p/effective-al…
- Wondering what's behind all the talk about "Human Extinction from AI"? Well, it's over 1.6 BILLION dollars from Effective Altruism billionaires. 🧵
- In May 2021, the Future of Life Institute became a 665.8-million-dollar organization. It's only now, in March 2024, that we learn the magnitude of Buterin's donation. FLI used it to fund existing "AI Existential Risk" organizations and created new ones. #Shibagate
- 🚨The UK AISI identified four methodological flaws in AI "scheming" studies (deceptive alignment) conducted by Anthropic, MTER, Apollo Research, and others: "We call researchers studying AI 'scheming' to minimise their reliance on anecdotes, design research with appropriate
- Replying to @Kurz_GesagtKurzgesagt got = $7,533,224 from Open Philanthropy We got = "a virus that only kills people with green eyes," a starving skeleton in front of his screen, and a ridiculous "survival kit" merchandise (to further fund Kurzgesagt). Cool.
- The AI Dilemma's 😱 Panic-as-a-Business: - Freaking people out with monstrous AI - Freaking people out with dubious survey stats - Distracting people from the real issues 🚨 New article: bit.ly/41JhjJm
- Effective Altruism billionaires spend millions of dollars brainwashing students into believing that "superhuman AI systems" will end humanity. As a result - they need mental health support.
We recently surveyed 300+ Harvard students about their views on AI. Our most surprising result: over 40% of Harvard students believe that AI extinction risk should be a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war. Link here: arxiv.org/abs/2406.00833; more results in 🧵.
