> I firmly believe that almost everyone who works for the big AI companies means well.
I agree with your broader point, but I feel like "almost everyone" means >90%. I'm pretty sure the successionists, immortality-chasers, and naive utilitarians (aka consent violators) make up more than 10% of the employees at the AI companies, and even more so at the research level.
Those folks are definitely out there. But I bet most of them believe the stories they tell themselves about acting for the greater good. Unfortunately, they are the types to reason that sounding like movie villains doesn't necessarily make them wrong.
> I firmly believe that almost everyone who works for the big AI companies means well.
I agree with your broader point, but I feel like "almost everyone" means >90%. I'm pretty sure the successionists, immortality-chasers, and naive utilitarians (aka consent violators) make up more than 10% of the employees at the AI companies, and even more so at the research level.
Those folks are definitely out there. But I bet most of them believe the stories they tell themselves about acting for the greater good. Unfortunately, they are the types to reason that sounding like movie villains doesn't necessarily make them wrong.