This declaration was made September 10th. It has over 5000 signatures now.
Over the last few months, the mathematical capabilities of LLMs have improved dramatically, to the point that they can solve major outstanding problems in many fields of mathematics. However, the push by AI companies to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics, and to the mathematical community. The goals of the AI companies and the goals of the mathematical community are severely misaligned. We see these as part of broader alignment issues impacting other scientific and creative professions, as well as the whole of society. more
Well, I was specifically addressing AI and the fuckheads who forcibly steamroll it over our lives.
But yeah, this is a systemic problem: the rich and powerful control societies (and not just capitalist societies, to be clear), and it is my personal belief that kind men don’t become rich or powerful, because becoming rich or powerful implies making someone else poorer or taking away their agency.
So if you follow the logic to its simple conclusion, the ultra-rich and ultra-powerful only get there not by being merely unkind, but by being truly evil. And this has nothing to do with the particular field they happen to be involved in.