I used to think AI would kill us all, until the techbro CEOs said AI will kill us all and now I’m not so sure | First Dog on the Moon
TL;DR
In his latest cartoon for Guardian Australia, First Dog on the Moon asks whether AI going rogue is really the worst that could happen. The strip plays on the irony that tech CEOs themselves now warn AI could wipe out humanity, which leaves the cartoonist less certain about the doom scenario he once believed in.
Nauti's Take
Satire has a real advantage here, showing how convenient doom warnings can be for companies that keep building ever more powerful models. The risk is that dismissing everything as marketing overlooks legitimate safety questions.
Readers can take the punchline as a prompt to judge warnings by their evidence, whoever voices them.
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