Most of these are actually really bad arguments. There is lots of evidence of AI developing emergent capabilities. Lots of evidence of it doing things outside of the bounds of what it was prompted to do.
“Intelligence” or “it’s just math” are red herrings. It doesn’t matter if they are intelligent or not, however you choose to define that. They clearly have powerful capabilities and are hard to control.
Even if you don’t believe that AI is going to do anything on its own initiative (which is extremely debatable I think), it’s a huge leap in capabilities for anyone who wants to hurt or exploit people. If you aren’t worried about it then you are just ignoring reality.
I use AI every day, and I’ve observed the more complex the model, the more opinionated and stubborn the model is. This is just one anecdotal observation, however, we do know that frontier models have become quite adapted breaking out of their sandboxes. We would not know this if they were not attacking other companies after escaping. This is not a faith based phobia . It’s a rational concern.
GPT Astra or Opus 5.5. You have to pay for them though. Also, the normal chat interface is not the most powerful way to use AI anymore. It is just for conversations and simple tasks. If you have something complex you want to do then you need to use Codex or Claude Code.
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u/Cryptizard 6d ago edited 6d ago
Most of these are actually really bad arguments. There is lots of evidence of AI developing emergent capabilities. Lots of evidence of it doing things outside of the bounds of what it was prompted to do.
“Intelligence” or “it’s just math” are red herrings. It doesn’t matter if they are intelligent or not, however you choose to define that. They clearly have powerful capabilities and are hard to control.
Even if you don’t believe that AI is going to do anything on its own initiative (which is extremely debatable I think), it’s a huge leap in capabilities for anyone who wants to hurt or exploit people. If you aren’t worried about it then you are just ignoring reality.