"As AI advances, so too does the desperation of those trying to stop it. Two men, worried about the threat AI poses to humanity's future, are now on hunger strike outside the offices of Anthropic and DeepMind. For Guido Reichstadter, a 45-year-old activist, Sunday marked a week of protest without food. Reichstadter told Business Insider he plans to remain until the company responds to his concerns about the direction of AI development."
"While AI leaders from Geoffrey Hinton to Elon Musk have sounded the alarm about the pace of AI development, it has done little to slow progress as companies compete to develop artificial general intelligence, a still theoretical form of AI that reasons as well as humans. Hinton recently said on the "One Decision" podcast that "many of the people in big companies, I think, are downplaying the risk publicly.""
"Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei himself has issued dire warnings about the potential for white collar job losses. "AI may eliminate 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs within the next five years," he said at a developer conference in May. "We, as the producers of this technology, have a duty and an obligation to be honest about what is coming. I don't think this is on people's radar," Amodei later told Axios."
Two activists are staging hunger strikes outside Anthropic and DeepMind to demand a halt to frontier AI development. Guido Reichstadter has been without food for a week and says he will remain until Anthropic addresses his concerns and remediates harms. Reichstadter delivered a letter to CEO Dario Amodei's desk and calls for an immediate stop to reckless actions. Michael Trazzi joins the protest demanding companies stop AI development. Senior AI figures such as Geoffrey Hinton and Dario Amodei have publicly warned about risks and job losses, but industry competition continues toward artificial general intelligence.
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