Meta’s AI leaders want you to know fears over AI existential risk are “ridiculous”

It’s a really weird time in AI. In just six months, the public discourse around the technology has gone from “Chatbots generate funny sea shanties” to “AI systems could cause human extinction.” Who else is feeling whiplash?  My colleague Will Douglas Heaven asked AI experts why exactly people are talking about existential risk, and why…

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