Thread regarding SAS Institute layoffs

"described AI-powered scenarios involving deepfakes,"

Which has produced a twin threat whereby real video is spun as a deepfake.

"...AI contributing to disinformation around existential issues such as climate change.."

Example: attempting to censor the fact that the climate has been cycling quite naturally for thousands of years.

Almost 58 per cent of researchers said they considered that there is a 5 percent chance of human extinction or other extremely bad AI-related outcomes.

There are also more immediate worries without any superhuman AI risks. Large majorities of AI researchers – 70 per cent or more – described AI-powered scenarios involving deepfakes, manipulation of public opinion, engineered we-pons, authoritarian control of populations and worsening economic inequality to be of either substantial or extreme concern. Torres also highlighted the dangers of AI contributing to disinformation around existential issues such as climate change or worsening democratic governance.

“We already have the technology, here and now, that could seriously undermine [the US] democracy,” says Torres. “We’ll see what happens in the 2024 election.”

More info in Source:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2410839-theres-a-5-chance-of-ai-causing-humans-to-go-extinct-say-scientists/#:~:text=Many%20artificial%20intelligence%20researchers%20see,and%20uncertainty%20about%20such%20risks.

Be most afraid of this corrupt US government funding both sides of every war on the planet.....we leave we-pons in Afghanistan and they end up in the hands of Ha--s and we fund the Israelis - it's the civilians that die and pay the price, the war machine gets richer and more powerful! the government gets ever bigger and bigger - governments don't create anything- governments don't make money - governments take money from the public and spend the money funding the war machine.....WW3 is coming!

Back to the OP’s question…



I don’t think AI is going to be the disaster so many people predict. Pandemics and climate change are more likely to hurt people.


AI will have its good and bad effects, for sure. Most concerning is that AI makes it so easy to fake anything. We will all have trouble discerning truth and agreeing on facts — even more trouble we have now.

And if ever an AI is developed that threatens humanity — it won’t be developed at SAS, so my conscience is clear 😂.

"battles the elites and corrupt establishment for free speech."

This is what the leftists REALLY hate about him.

Tesla sales have been down since the beginning of this year and Tesla has been forced to cut prices. Tesla stocks have also been down. Sales momentum for electric vehicles (EVs) is slowing globally. Sales of hybrids are getting popular.

If you look at Elon's pay package - the details - you'll see it's 100% performance based AND not a single person (except Elon) thought he had a chance of making it. Set big targets - get big results. All others throwing rocks, crawl back under your rocks while Elon sends humanity to Mars and battles the elites and corrupt establishment for free speech.

I don't see how he deserves a $56B pay package considering his company's performance in the last 6-9 months. His board of directors are under his thumb.
This is the second time the board voted to give him such an excessive amount of pay package. Tesla re-incorporated in Texas from Delaware after losing in Delaware.
The Delaware judge had a conscience and struck down the pay package. Hopefully the new judge in Texas will do the same but it is Texas so maybe not.
I am just glad our own SAS CEO is not greedy like E. E is already one of the richest men, if not the richest man in the world and it does not seem like it is enough for him but he wants more pay.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk won the backing of shareholders Thursday in his fight to reclaim a $56 billion pay package voided by a Delaware judge who ruled the record-breaking compensation was excessive.
Shareholders voted in favor of restoring the package they approved in 2018, Brandon Ehrhart, Tesla’s general counsel and board secretary, announced onstage at the company’s annual shareholder meeting. He did not announce the vote totals.
Ehrhart also said shareholders voted to move Tesla’s corporate home to Texas from Delaware, fleeing the state where most big companies are incorporated, after Musk said Delaware’s court system was “broken.”

The win for Musk came on the shoulders of Tesla’s individual investors, who Musk said backed him by a wide margin, in contrast to some institutional investors who criticized his pay. He used his account on X, where he has 187 million followers, to rally support among retail investors and criticize those who opposed him, such as a Norwegian sovereign wealth fund.
But the fight over the $56 billion isn’t over. The Delaware judge who struck down Musk’s compensation in January is likely to be asked to rule on whether the latest shareholder vote was fair under the state’s business laws. And last week, a different Tesla shareholder from the one involved in the earlier case filed a new lawsuit, arguing that the second vote should be ruled invalid.

Musk all but threatened to leave Tesla if shareholders didn’t grant him more shares.
Isn't this illegal for blackmailing shareholders?

Source:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-wins-tesla-shareholder-vote-56-billion-pay-package-rcna156892

I have successful Millennial family members that don't want to have kids because of the state of the world we live in and because of bleak future with AI with many other scary things that will happen someday (WWIII is one of them). Bad actors (countries with bad intentions) could really exploit AI to rule the world and cause mayhem for the world.

@OP+1t0nx6Kd

Sometimes I wish I hadn't had kids. I genuinely fear for my teenage sons, and the world they will inherit. I'm afraid our future looks very dystopian, and that future is just about upon us.

Your kids will be just fine if you raise them right. No need to worry.

Pick literally any decade in history, and look at what was going on. Now is no better, but certainly no worse.

Just think, we're ripe for WWIII, if it isn't already going by proxy. Our next Presidential election will be between a criminal and the father of a criminal. We've returned to the world of the laborer. We're all on the path to becoming part of the Diabetes Industrial Complex. Life imitates Art, as in "Wall-E", or "Idiocracy", or some other dystopian Disney movie.

Can't disagree with this. It's scary and weird.

Couldn't agree more!!!!

To much power in too few hands. For instance, how one man is worth a $45b / year pay package is beyond me. And how this has just been approved by Tesla shareholders is even more amazing. Can't even begin to imagine what behind-closed-doors conversations were had with Tesla's big institutional investors to get that across the line. The whole thing stinks.