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Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut It All Down

https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/

3•chwolfe•5h ago

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gnabgib•5h ago

(2023) Past discussions (219 points, 404 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35364833

(36 points, 79 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35504887

vouaobrasil•1h ago

> An open letter published today calls for “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.”

We need to shut down AI more than that, forever. Otherwise it's just the prisoner's dilemma to create an end technology that is too powerful for us to handle and it will create chaos. The world is better off without AI.

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1•steezeburger•10m ago•1 comments

The Supreme Vice President of Technology and Other Tangential Operations

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1•flyingsky•11m ago•0 comments

What the failure of a superstar student reveals about economics

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1•helsinkiandrew•15m ago•1 comments

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1•sidkshatriya•20m ago•1 comments

Welcome to the AI Trough of Disillusionment

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1•helsinkiandrew•22m ago•1 comments

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7•Tomte•25m ago•1 comments

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1•Tomte•26m ago•0 comments

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4•ljf•28m ago•0 comments

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1•hunglee2•30m ago•0 comments

'Alarming' rise in regional internet censorship in China, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/24/alarming-rise-in-regional-internet-censorship-in-china-study-finds

3•beardyw•33m ago•1 comments

Black Mirror was a warmup act - OpenAI pivots into hardware

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2•mdp2021•33m ago•0 comments

Passion

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1•thunderbong•34m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Go deep into AI/LLMs or just use them as tools?

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1•nreece•43m ago•0 comments

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5•doener•1h ago•0 comments

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