AI developer calls for global pause so his own AGI lab can catch up
Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
In a satirical note, Xe Iaso demands that the AI industry halt all frontier model research so his startup Techaro's Lygma AGI lab can catch up and dominate the world with its Intelliga models. The models will offer cat ears to everyone—for a price, subliminal advertising is removed. He invites other AI companies to support the pause, framing it as ensuring AI remains a net good for what really matters: Techaro's bank account and FelonyBench score.
Our plan is to invent artificial general intelligence and then ask it to figure out how to give people cat ears.
- AaronAPU
They are talking about slowing down the public facing AI development. Because then nation states can create a capabilities gap between them and the public.
Why does nobody seem to be pointing out this obvious explanation? It explains why the “we need to race China” concern suddenly vanished in the discussion.
The government can simply gag Sam, Dario, Musk on national security basis, getting them all behind the public messaging.
- olalonde
Prediction: in a few years, we will laugh at this hysteria and call it a moral panic.
- coderintherye
I have to wonder if some us are just much more inured to salespeople and thus also to "AI Safety" propaganda. I've yet to have a logical discussion with anyone who thinks the "AI Safety" people should be in charge and I think they just truly don't that what most them actually want is to be the one holding the keys to power.
- fnctrev
If anyone is going to end humanity why not catgirls, after all?
- dwohnitmok
> Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
Who's said this? And then more broadly I guess who's implied this? Very curious if there are specific articles/posts prompting this.
- hn_submit
This is exactly the reason Anthropic's call to slow down A.I. development will fail. Shareholders will be loath to accept that the company loses its lead and a commensurate sharp decline in the company's share price.
Moreover, it could lead China to catch up and eventually proclaim that it has nosed ahead of the U.S. in the field. The U.S. Government won't allow that to happen.
- nullbio
These people are so fucking exhausting.
And then Dario wants to recommend METR as the "independent evaluator" while he stacks their org full of ex-Anthropic (aka, secretly still on the Anthropic payroll with huge equity) employees.
"We'll give them a desk, an office, a work laptop, ..."
Fucking make it less obvious. I kind of hope the govt steps in at this point and says "Anthropic, you wanted regulation? We've created this actually independent body full of IT professionals with zero ties to your safety industry or big tech, all of your work must now go through them." - and leave the rest of the world alone to continue their research/work without acting like doomer extremists.
Watch him 180 immediately if that happened. The only reason he's pushing for this exact approach is because he's stacked the deck.
- herunan
As someone who wants cat ears, I believe that doing it responsibly is the only way.