“The OpenAI CEO Disagrees With the Forecast That AI Will Kill Us All: An Artificial Intelligence Twitter Beef, Explained”, 2023-03-08 ():
…Eliezer Yudkowsky, meanwhile, has lost nearly all hope that humanity will handle AI responsibly, he said on a podcast last month. After the creation of OpenAI, with its commitment to advancing AI development, he said he cried by himself late at night and thought, “Oh, so this is what humanity will elect to do. We will not rise above. We will not have more grace, not even here at the very end.”
Given that background, it certainly seemed like rubbing salt in a wound when Sam Altman tweeted recently that Yudkowsky had “done more to accelerate AGI than anyone else” and might someday “deserve the Nobel Peace Prize” for his work. Read a certain way, he was trolling Yudkowsky, saying the AI theorist had, in trying to prevent his most catastrophic fear, substantially hastened its arrival. (Yudkowsky said he could not know if Altman was trolling him; Altman declined to comment.)