Computer scientist Cal Newport adds some clarity to the AI debate

Observational Epidemiology · 18 hours ago · discuss

As previously mentioned, software veteran Carl Brown has pointed out that we can prevent incidents like the hugging face hack simply by enforcing existing laws.Here the reliable Cal Newport explains that these incidents all come not from LLMs in general but from the reckless application of one particular application of LLM-powered agents, and that there's no good explanation for the risks these companies have been taking. When Hubinger says “AI could kill all humans,” he’s not talking about AI in a general sense; he’s really referring to a specific type of AI system that we can call an LLM-powered agent....