Ask HN: Do older programmers/CS academics view AI safety as a form of arrogance?

3•amichail•46m ago

Maybe they have seen AI fail for so long due to poor performance that it makes AI safety experts seem like they are vastly overestimating what AI can do?

Comments

uberman•44m ago

What are talking about?

amichail•38m ago

I think for older programmers/CS academics, the second most surprising thing about the ChatGPT breakthrough in 2022 was that people cared about AI safety.

stalfosknight•35m ago

I would use the word naïveté, but arrogance too, sure.

cpburns2009•31m ago

What do you mean specifically by safety? It seems everyone, young and old, is running AI in YOLO-mode with full system access.

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