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Turns out Altman is a lab-leak covid truther, calls virus 'synthetic' according to Spectator piece on AI risk. (archive.is)

submitted 11 months ago by Architeuthis@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Sam Altman, the recently fired (and rehired) chief executive of Open AI, was asked earlier this year by his fellow tech billionaire Patrick Collison what he thought of the risks of synthetic biology. ‘I would like to not have another synthetic pathogen cause a global pandemic. I think we can all agree that wasn’t a great experience,’ he replied. ‘Wasn’t that bad compared to what it could have been, but I’m surprised there has not been more global coordination and I think we should have more of that.’

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[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 17 points 11 months ago (6 children)

why are the comments on this post such a disaster. who are these people

[–] self@awful.systems 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

fuck, I stop looking for one Thanksgiving and this happens

[–] Shitgenstein1@awful.systems 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

My thanksgiving was drama-free (blurring the distinction between pleasant and boring) and just now finding what was going down here. 😭

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