investors throw all their money to the new incredibly fast-growing shiny tech before they can stop and think to trivial things like how much it costs or whether it’s actually doing useful things
AI companies can continuously flood the zone with announcements of incredible new feats of intelligence by their LLMs. By the time studies come out, showing that these feats were not so impressive after all, they have released two newer, more powerful models, capable of even more impressive (real or invented) feats.
AI companies can try positioning themselves as the “good, ethical guys” that you have to root for (and give all your money to), because the alternative is for the bad, unethical guys to create this AGI with no guardrails that will destroy the world. It’s “we can’t stop because if we stop someone else will do it”
this kind of pressure works for governments too. We can’t let China/the US/Iran/Russia (pick your specific adversary) control this potentially destructive technology first!
things that scare us, regular humans, make the rich and powerful salivate. We are scared of losing our jobs, they are happy to cut people costs (see… well, just about everyone in Tech). We are scared AI can create a surveillance state, they want to sell surveillance tech to companies and governments (see Palantir). “This tech makes regular people afraid” is music to the ears of the 0.1%.
they want to create urgency and FOMO. That way:
investors throw all their money to the new incredibly fast-growing shiny tech before they can stop and think to trivial things like how much it costs or whether it’s actually doing useful things
AI companies can continuously flood the zone with announcements of incredible new feats of intelligence by their LLMs. By the time studies come out, showing that these feats were not so impressive after all, they have released two newer, more powerful models, capable of even more impressive (real or invented) feats.
AI companies can try positioning themselves as the “good, ethical guys” that you have to root for (and give all your money to), because the alternative is for the bad, unethical guys to create this AGI with no guardrails that will destroy the world. It’s “we can’t stop because if we stop someone else will do it”
this kind of pressure works for governments too. We can’t let China/the US/Iran/Russia (pick your specific adversary) control this potentially destructive technology first!
things that scare us, regular humans, make the rich and powerful salivate. We are scared of losing our jobs, they are happy to cut people costs (see… well, just about everyone in Tech). We are scared AI can create a surveillance state, they want to sell surveillance tech to companies and governments (see Palantir). “This tech makes regular people afraid” is music to the ears of the 0.1%.