I believe he is acting with integrity but I can't respect it as I think it's not well grounded. It seems based in fear of AI tied in with some beliefs about the supernatural. I really can't see the solid concrete reason to quit his job making tools for helping create better hardware chips that somehow seems rational.
Any system is set up for and tuned around absorbing some amount of input at a time -- nutrients, say. If it gets too little, it starves and dies. If it gets too much, it breaks down and dies. A system can adapt over time, at a limited rate, and become capable of handling more or less.
Drinking a glass of water is beneficial and necessary. Drinking 100L in one go and you're dead.
The argument is that the rate of AI influx is too high for our human systems to metabolize, and so the system will break down. Not just operate in a degraded way, but break down and cause mass catastrophe. Even there, it doesn't necessarily mean the end of humanity, just 99.9% of us.
What the argument is not: AI is fundamentally poisonous. We are incapable of handling any level of AI. We will never be able to incorporate more AI. AI provides no benefit.
So quitting AI but still working on AI is not the contradiction it seems: you can quit accelerating AI and work on metabolizing it. And in fact that work is very necessary right now.
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FullStack Product Engineer since before it was cool (I think). 7 years of experience mostly in eCommerce analytics. I enjoy building and delivering features end-to-end, owning the full lifecycle from research to release to activation and adoption.
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It is quite the injection surface so everyone just be careful sending agents to read, interact with, and perhaps even execute code/a skill from an unknown source.
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