So, the other "godfather" of AI, Turing Award Winner Yoshua Bengio has decided to FULLY align himself with the #TESCREAL bundle, writing a thing about "rogue AI" and prominently citing people like Nick Bostrom.

Take a good look at this text here. This is written by non other than Nick Bostrom, prominently featured by so many of these fathers and godfathers and sons and brothers and nephews of "AI" (given that its all men you know).

That's right "Blacks are more stupid than whites" and then he proceeds to call us the N word. That's not even the worst of it, because his entire career has been "raising awareness" about "dysgenic pressures" (the opposite of eugenic pressures), as existential risks to humanity. That is, those of us who are "stupider than mankind as a whole" reproducing too much and creating an inferior race.
He feels ZERO need to hide any of this shit because he does it in the worst "scholarspeak" ever, until his very clear email came out. Then he had an even worse apology. We knew there would be ZERO consequences (ahhh the awful "cancel culture" amiright?), and Oxford students protested. Literally weeks after that the The New York Times just profiled him a couple of months ago.
AFTER all that, the Future of Life institute, co-founded by Musk and Max Tegraf (you can read here about the latter's Nazi funding & I don't have anything more to say about Elmo: https://lnkd.in/gC6m4Y4s), get to write a letter having the who's who of "AI" signing something about pausing it and saving humanity, also citing Bostrom (how wonderful). Now Yoshua who also signed that letter, writes another blogpost about "existential risk" also citing Bostrom.
Elon Musk-Backed Non-Profit Offered $100K Grant to ‘Pro-Nazi’ Media Outlet

The Future of Life Institute said that a failure of vetting led to the grant offer to the Swedish far-right media platform "Nya Dagbladet," but it was revoked once they realised their extremist ideology.

Maybe stop your racist ass field before trying to "save humanity." Why don't you start by cleaning your own damn house and stop platforming the actual humans whose ideologies are threats to actual living humans right now?
The entire foundation of this field is the most racist shit I've ever seen. The more I learn the more bizarre it gets. And your favorites, OpenAI + co. are most influenced by, you guessed it, Nick Bostrom. "Altman has written about the influence Nick Bostrom...the "father" of longtermist thought, has had on him and his work": https://lnkd.in/gsVwrpJM
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It’s behind a paywall for me but one of the authors, Julia Black, was the guest on this excellent episode

https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/168_pronatalism_and_silicon_valleys_right_wing_turn_w_julia_black

She was a great guest. Fair and humble despite impressive accomplishments. She’s very relatable. Approaches all this as an intelligent regular-person. Discusses Altman as well as Musk and more. #tescreal and associated ideas Musk, Andreessen, & others (perhaps not Altman?) are into blew my mind.

Pronatalism and Silicon Valley’s Right-Wing Turn w/ Julia Black - Tech Won’t Save Us

What is pronatalism and how does it fit into the broader plans of tech billionaires? Julia Black explains the industry’s shift to the right and how they’re using rationalist ideologies to try to defend their privileges.

Tech Won't Save Us
Pronatalism and Silicon Valley’s Right-Wing Turn w/ Julia Black - Tech Won’t Save Us

What is pronatalism and how does it fit into the broader plans of tech billionaires? Julia Black explains the industry’s shift to the right and how they’re using rationalist ideologies to try to defend their privileges.

Tech Won't Save Us