• Big Tech is lying about some AI risks to shut down competition, a Google Brain cofounder has said.
  • Andrew Ng told The Australian Financial Review that tech leaders hoped to trigger strict regulation.
  • Some large tech companies didn’t want to compete with open source, he added.
  • Elias Griffin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “Ng said the idea that AI could wipe out humanity could lead to policy proposals that require licensing of AI”

    Otherwise stated: Pay us to overregulate and we’ll protect you from extinction. A Mafia perspective.

    • ohlaph@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Right?!?!! Lines are obvious. Only if they thought they could get away with it, and they might, actually, but also what if?!?!