My latest dispatch from the AI boom for the Washington Post looks at a billionaire-backed movement to push concerns about "existential risks" around AI from the fringes of tech culture into the mainstream. Recently tech philanthropists have helped fund about 20 student-led “AI Safety” clubs at elite colleges like Stanford, Harvard, MIT, NYU, Columbia as part of an effort to recruit idealistic talent to focus their time on the speculative risk that AI could kill us all.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/05/ai-apocalypse-college-students
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