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Turns out Altman is a lab-leak covid truther, calls virus 'synthetic' according to Spectator piece on AI risk. (archive.is)

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Sam Altman, the recently fired (and rehired) chief executive of Open AI, was asked earlier this year by his fellow tech billionaire Patrick Collison what he thought of the risks of synthetic biology. ‘I would like to not have another synthetic pathogen cause a global pandemic. I think we can all agree that wasn’t a great experience,’ he replied. ‘Wasn’t that bad compared to what it could have been, but I’m surprised there has not been more global coordination and I think we should have more of that.’

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

As they say in Australia, he is cooked.

[–] NounsAndWords 3 points 1 year ago (10 children)

This sounds like a bad take, but for good reasons. I would like the people making AI to take really, really seriously the potential of synthetic viruses. It sounds like he's doing that (rather than working backwards from racism).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Lucky for you, there's a discussion about that on this very instance:

https://awful.systems/post/565815?scrollToComments=true

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

shut the fuck up

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