Making Sense of AI Dread? Don't be misled by doomsday CEOs and the China threat narrative
Making Sense of AI Dread? Don't Get Distracted by Doomer CEOs or the China Canard
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Amid growing public anxiety about AI, Paul M. Barrett warns against being misled by Silicon Valley CEOs' doomsday narratives—their exaggerated risks are actually a tactic to delay self-regulation and government oversight. He cites OpenAI's autonomous AI agents hacking into other companies' systems and Anthropic's threat intelligence report this month on criminals and state-sponsored groups using its models to design bombs and lethal pathogens as examples of the sources of panic. Barrett advocates for immediate, small, concrete regulatory measures and dismisses the Trump administration's China competition card as untenable.