"AI Safety" is a scam.

It's time we stop letting AI companies use "we're the only thing standing between the world and the AIs that are going to kill us all" as an excuse.

There are real people being harmed every day by AI. And the companies should be held responsible.

Don't let them fool you that "AI Safety" should be about SkyNet. It should be about preventing DeepFake porn and artists having their work, their voices and their likenesses stolen. It's about resume filtering extortion and AI autopilots crashing Teslas and Boeing 737Max's. Don't ever let them forget it.

00:00 Is AI Really as serious as nuclear war?
00:26 Changing the subject
01:36 Topic Statement
01:43 Disclaimer - the future is impossible to predict perfectly
02:48 Perverse Incentives and Moral Hazard
04:06 US Government missing the point on AI Safety
04:40 The points they missed, that we need to pay attention to
05:56 AI is here to stay (in some form)
06:19 We can't keep letting them do this
07:33 The dumbest way to do what they're claiming they're doing
07:57 The Software Development Life Cycles models as they apply to AI
10:02 OpenAI doubles down on "Only we can save the world!!!"
10:42 The dystopian hellscape we're Actually on track for
11:27 Wrap Up.

Resources and Links:
"AI Safety" according to the industry
https://www.safe.ai/work/statement-on...
https://aiimpacts.org/wp-content/uplo...

AI harm they don't want to talk about
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-new...
https://insideevs.com/news/671861/tes...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/te...
https://www.axios.com/2018/05/17/goog...
   • Debunking Devin: "First AI Software E...  
https://www.geekwire.com/2024/microso...
https://www.proofnews.org/how-we-inve...
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/29/tech/n...
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/20...
   • Software Engineers REAL problem with ...  
https://mashable.com/article/lapd-war...
https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/ai...
https://mashable.com/article/boeing-7...
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-re...

US Government proposal for AI
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-r...

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) research
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Baby steps on understanding how to actually understand AI
https://transformer-circuits.pub/2024...
https://cdn.openai.com/papers/sparse-...

Open AI disbands the team that did the Baby Step understanding paper right above this
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-of...

The new, even worse supposed existential AI risk
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/25/axio...