Ziz LaSota is an AI safety advocate whose views have been described as puzzling and extremist. Her followers, known as the 'Zizans', are linked to violent incidents, including the killing of a Border Patrol agent. Anna Salamon from the Center for Applied Rationality expressed concerns that LaSota's all-or-nothing perspective might resemble doomsday cult dynamics. LaSota, obsessed with concepts like 'Roko's Basilisk', believed it was her duty to prevent AI from causing global destruction, while seeking validation in a competitive community.
"There's this all-or-nothing thing, where AI will either bring utopia by solving all the problems, if it's successfully controlled, or literally kill everybody," Anna Salamon said.
"From my perspective, that's already a chunk of the way toward doomsday cult dynamics," Salamon commented about the extreme views surrounding AI.
LaSota struck the CFAR director as someone who wanted to feel special, but struggled to do so within a scene full of rising stars.
Obsessed with the concept of 'Roko's Basilisk,' a ghoulish thought experiment, LaSota thought it was her duty to stop AI from destroying the world.
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