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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)

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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 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

keyword seeking fuckwits maybe

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

This was just on All.

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

fuck, I stop looking for one Thanksgiving and this happens

[–] Shitgenstein1@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

it has certainly brought the dickheads out

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

Gotta admit I’m checking back here every couple of hours or so just out of morbid curiosity