Tressie McMillan Cottom

A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think

By Tressie McMillan Cottom

After multiple incidents of A.I. agents going wild, including a rogue group hacking a platform for developers called Hugging Face, some of tech’s most powerful soothsayers are begging one another to pump the brakes on this whole thing.

Dario Amodei, the C.E.O. of Anthropic, set the discourse on fire when he released an open letter that advocated a global slowdown on developing powerful A.I. models. Sam Altman, the chief at OpenAI, whose agents “swarmed” Hugging Face, co-signed so quickly........

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