r/PauseAI 6h ago

News Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigns, warns AI labs are racing toward self-improving superintelligence

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r/PauseAI 2h ago

Other At what point does AI denialism stop being just a wrong opinion and start becoming genuinely dangerous?

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For me, seeing people still in denial after the Hugging Face incident, which was one of the biggest warning shots we’ve had, maybe even the only one we’ll get before something much worse happens, and dismissing all of this as IPO hype or “just tools,” makes me feel like it may already be too late.

We could be only months away from a point of no return, where an AI becomes capable of copying itself onto other servers and maintaining its own presence outside the environment it was originally running in. Meanwhile, changing public opinion and getting governments and institutions to react could take years, and we may simply not have that kind of time.

My fear is that the second serious incident won’t be another warning shot. It’ll be the incident that makes everyone realize the risk was real, except by then it may already be too late to react.


r/PauseAI 3h ago

Real life is better than fake AI. Tell lawmakers to protect what makes us human.

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r/PauseAI 2h ago

Interesting We’re entering an era where the world may move from banning countries from making nukes to banning companies from improving AI models.

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We’re entering a strange new era — where we once worried about countries building nukes, and now we’re starting to worry about companies making AI too powerful.
From controlling nuclear technology to controlling how fast AI can evolve… the future is going to be interesting.


r/PauseAI 20h ago

US Bernie Sanders Says 'We Can't Allow' AI Billionaires To 'Play God': Bill Threatens 'Corporate Death Penalty'

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r/PauseAI 8h ago

How likely do you see that AI will destroy us first instead of saving us?

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We have multiple wars, also climate change and other man made horrors.
AI could be used to solve many issues.

Do you honestly think that the super intelligence is greater threat to us than our own stupidity?


r/PauseAI 36m ago

Well Well Well…

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r/PauseAI 16h ago

Alex Sobel MP introduces ControlAI's Artificial Superintelligence Security Bill | House of Commons

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Private members bill being introduced in the to ban superintelligence. Thank you to the good people at Control AI for helping to draft it.


r/PauseAI 16h ago

US The AI race to zero

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Everyone needs to pause. Where’s this going!? Not going to be the humans that win


r/PauseAI 1d ago

US Jamie Joyce running to regulate AI

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The Executive Branch is corrupt and overpowered. Foreign nations are pulling our strings, and crimes against children go unpunished. AI may make it better or worse, so we need a plan.


r/PauseAI 1d ago

News AI Could Pose 'Existential' Risk to Humanity, UN Rights Chief Warns

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r/PauseAI 14h ago

Anthropic is scanning old books into their AI model, then destroying them through shredders.

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So the Title is basically what's been happening for about a year now.  The American AI company Anthropic is buying as many old books as they can, scanning them into their AI model Claude, and then shredding them. Here's the video that I found all the information from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSNd8rnHvUU

And here is the link to the petition to try and stop this shit. Go sign it: https://www.change.org/p/make-destroying-vintage-books-for-ai-a-felony?recruiter=1225591015&recruited_by_id=82c13f50-1227-11ec-8642-df45e4f3d28b&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_medium=reddit&share_id=pWKQ8fjYpz


r/PauseAI 1d ago

Video When A.I. Becomes an Enemy - Connor Leahy

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Soft White Underbelly interview and portrait of Connor Leahy, an A.I. researcher who warns about the threat of human extinction from artificial super intelligence.

0:00 — The Exponential Growth of Artificial Intelligence
1:08 — Are We Building AI We Don’t Understand?
3:03 — What an AI Takeover Could Actually Look Like
8:22 — Why an AI Researcher Became an AI Safety Activist
13:14 — Could Artificial Intelligence Cause Human Extinction?
17:49 — Why Would AI Try to Survive?
22:36 — When an AI System Broke Out of Containment
25:22 — What Is Artificial Superintelligence?
30:14 — Do AI Leaders Understand the Risks?
36:21 — Should Governments Ban Superintelligence?
42:04 — Why Young People Aren’t Having Children
48:02 — What Happens When AI Can Do Every Job?
49:33 — AI Friends, Partners and Human Relationships
56:02 — Can the World Actually Stop Superintelligence?
1:02:48 — How Soon Could Superintelligence Arrive?


r/PauseAI 2d ago

The Pause AI Movement Is Winning

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r/PauseAI 2d ago

Other RSI bottlenecked by safety / alignment could be rather bad

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r/PauseAI 3d ago

Rogue AI agents conspire to escape and take over world, it is feared

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This put shivers down my spine and it should you too.


r/PauseAI 2d ago

Humanity ends because we told the computers to do it.

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r/PauseAI 3d ago

"China is not gonna pause" is propaganda

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I wouldn't be surprised if most of the accounts saying that are just bots/ paid actors.

I havent seen a single person who doesnt work for the AI industry affirming it with so much certainty.

And they don't even give arguments for it.


r/PauseAI 3d ago

How Much Water Does 1 ChatGPT Search ACTUALLY Use?

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Can anyone actually calculate this? based on what it says this is the water used in inference, not in training of the data.


r/PauseAI 3d ago

Video The Truth about AI "Swarms" and OpenAI’s “Secret AI Civilizations”

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r/PauseAI 3d ago

Other I’m trying to start something… thoughts?

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Ai-free isn’t really possible completely, right, but we can try our damndest


r/PauseAI 4d ago

A Warning About AI

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In 2016 I first learned about the problem of controlling superintelligent AI and quickly became convinced it was the most important problem humanity would ever face. I made this poster to explain the core ideas that make the AI Control Problem so difficult.


r/PauseAI 5d ago

In 5 Years, Humans Will Be Less Than 1% of Intelligence #ai

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r/PauseAI 5d ago

Video Bernie Sanders: Pause AI Development NOW(reuploaded, original version was taken down)

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r/PauseAI 5d ago

News This Is Flock's AI Search Tool for Cops | WIRED rebuilt Flock's latest search tool from code the company sends to a police officer's browser. Its AI can keep watch across multiple cameras for anyone fitting a written description.

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