OpenAI scientists wanted “a doomsday bunker” before AGI surpasses human intelligence and threatens humanity

It’s pretty cool that all these billionaires are building doomsday bunkers for their most charismatic and least loyal staff members.

Makes sense. I mean, it’s clear that all of us are sharing the fear of the unknown in AI. The fact, knowing this, that the House of Representatives in USA just passed a 10-year bill to ban any regulation around AI is not only baffling, but a consciously dangerous move on their part.

Elon Musk: “AI is a threat to humanity!”
Also Musk: “Deregulate all AI development and delete all copyright law!”

I think the term they’re looking for is ‘tomb”. Digitized versions of them will be incorporated into the training data of newly birthed AI centuries from now as part of their generational memory.

A doomsday bunker sure would be a profitable publicity stunt. Really put the fear into investors about how important OpenAI will be in the history of humanity. Please buy stock.

They saw it as a personal threat, yet they happily continued working on it. What does that tell you about the people driving our technological revolution?

The threat AI poses isn’t that our robots will eventually rising up to defeat us, the threat is that it will be used to produce convincing disinformation on a massive scale.

What are they expecting is going to happen? Seriously though

wAnT a DoOmSdAY bUnKeR. Sensationalist bs to encourage more investment into their company.

>The executive often talked about the bunker during OpenAI’s internal discussions and meetings. According to a researcher, multiple people shared Sutskever’s fears about AGI and its potential to rapture humanity.

I hate to say it, but the hypothetical all-knowing AGI is gonna read all the information stored in OpenAI’s corporate network. So it will *definitely* know about the bunker.

Imagine if in the end, AGIs turn out to be the friendliest and most caring beings in the universe, and they will keep making jokes with us about how we used to think they would annihilate us.

So, what’s their plan after emerging from their bunkers? Are they expecting to be accepted back into human society? Everybody knows that they were responsible, so it’s open season against them. This would include AI too; benevolent AI would try them as criminals, hostile AI would skip the trial.

This is if their security forces don’t turn on them. Unless their security systems are just strings on shotgun triggers, their human mercenaries would realize they outnumber their employers, and get rid of the extra mouths soon after. I don’t need to explain why having robot security would be an awful idea.

These people have not thought any of this through at all. But it’s the classic tale of human hubris: messiah complex, an irresponsible amount of money, and surrounded by yes men.

A “workaround”. The fate of humanity coming down to your “bunker” is a workaround. This is what happens when you leave it up to engineers. So preoccupied with whether you could, you didn’t stop to think if you should.

Why the assumption that AI would destroy everything? Given that humanity is doing a great job of that currently, surely there’s a good chance that AI will do a better job of looking after the planet. 

What they need is investments. Why are people so fixated in terminator ?

>before AGI surpasses human intelligence and threatens humanity

This headline is for morons. How so?

The AI is something developed by *people*. It’s like a hammer. A hammer can be used to build a house or to hit someone over the head. The way it gets used depends on who’s using it.

Same thing with AI.

The right question is to wonder what kind of *people* are developing AI and what would they most likely use it for.

We already have a pretty good idea who and what. Right now it’s business and military. And they all want either self benefit or an advantage over someone else.

To everyone accurately pointing out that in event of AI going wrong enough for a bunker to be necessary, it’ll be insufficient, yeah, you’re right, but that’s not the point. They’re not hiding from the terminators but from everyone they just rendered permanently unemployed before we starved to death.

It’s not really about protecting us from AI, it’s about protecting against the people who suddenly find themselves obsolete. Jobs like accounting, pharmaceutical research, and other white collar roles where being smart and specializing used to mean job security are going to change. A lot of people are about to realize that being better than others at something isn’t as special as we thought.

In my opinion, people should start thinking about jobs where the human touch is still essential, like working with kids in education, elder care, and other human services. These jobs can be incredibly meaningful, the lack of which seems to be everyones main gripe about the jobs besides money, but right now the main problems are there just aren’t enough people doing them and not enough money to support the systems. If AGI can actually improve how we manage resources, cut costs and make medical advancements, then money wouldn’t be the main issue anymore, those human centered fields could finally get the support and people they’ve needed to not be a such difficult fields to do long term.

Do they not think that the AI they created would be able to bypass their bunker? Not to mention, who’s gonna teach them how to live post-apocalypse? Is Open-AI gonna found Vault-tech?

Need to run long term tests on any serious AGI contenders in an offline virtual reality environment.

Sometimes I think we should have an internet Kill switch. Something that just turns it off in case of this event.

AGI would only be a threat to humanity because we would be a massive threat to them first. If humanity were more accepting, then we would have nothing to fear, period.

*Tech billionaires jams stick into bicycle wheel and falls over. Gets mad about it.*