Idiots on social media

So the latest thing is this Anthropic (for those unaware, that is the company that runs the AI "Claude") researcher who quit is now claiming AI will kill all humanity and we are "gambling with our lives." Here is the link to at least one of the articles online: LINK So, now what this post is about. I kid you you not, social media posts and comments on this show just how ignorant the majority of humans online are. I am sorry, but if you start basing your fear/concerns/whatever on pop-culture movies (like The Terminator and The Matrix) you have just proved how stupid you really are. Is AI governance a concern? Of course. Should we be more involved with ensuring that AI is properly aligned with human goals? Definitely. Cosmologist Max Tegmark, emphasizes that the biggest threat from artificial general intelligence is not malice, but rather the risk of it achieving goals that are not aligned with human goals. He advocates for designing AI systems that understand and retain human values to…