How Safe is 'AI Safety'?
The leaders of America’s biggest AI-focused companies—including Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, Inflection AI, and OpenAI—met with President Biden on Friday, committing to continue to do what they were already doing to make AI safe, per their own definitions of safety.
The meeting can be considered symptomatic of AI executives’ dominance in the conversation about the dangers posed by their own products. That dominance has resulted in the proliferation of ominous scenarios centered on the hypothetical and dire possible long-term outcomes of the technology.
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