Episode 590: Transparency will save us

Now, in other news that's slightly different, Matt, I think this week I have read 75 million takes on the AI doom and gloom.

That's all anyone's talking about.

So I figured, why not? Why not us? Why don't we talk about it? You know, the gist of it is if you're somehow haven't listened to 5 million podcasts and read 7 million articles about this is that an open AI researcher came out and said that there's basically a 1 in 10 chance that the end of humanity can happen in the next 10 years or 10% if, you know, for those doing math at home.

That didn't spun off.

Literally everyone has had a take on this.

And there's been every conceivable take, right? Everything from it's complete nonsense.

This is just made up to it's actually underestimating it.

Some people are even like, actually, we think in three years things are going to be coming to an end for humanity.

So I'll just start with you.

Not even what your take is.

Like, how are you consuming this information if you're consuming it at all? Like, what are you doing to process all of this?

Well, obviously, you know, you want to be aware of the source.

You know, who did this? What's their X? And so the meta commentary I've been looking at is, well, I mean, the commentary I've been looking at is the meta commentary.

Like, you know, why this message? Why now? I don't really care about the messenger.

I mean, other people have said similar things.

What's interesting to me is the discussion of how, how like open AI and anthropic are running with it.

Like, Oh yeah.

Oh, maybe we are too dangerous to exist or, you know, maybe we are setting the world on fire.

And so how they've responded to this, you know, tempest that they've, they've probably helped stir up and create, um, So I, I think, you know, there, there's a couple of, of angles to it.

There's, you know, oh, is there, is there a legitimate fear here? I'm in the, like, not so much.

I think what's, if we were doing our prediction show, like my prediction would be in the next year.

Not 10 years, next year.

Some major service is going to get taken down and stay down for an extended period of time.

Like right now we're in Salesforce is having a bit of an outage.

I was like, what if someone just took Salesforce down for a month? Yeah, what does that