The funniest conspiracy theory that AI risk deniers believe is that AI risk activists are “just doing it for the money”

The funniest conspiracy theory that AI risk deniers believe is that AI risk activists are “just doing it for the money”

They’re trying to spin the narrative that charity workers are just motivated by money to go after poor, defenseless . . .Big Tech?

Do people know that ML engineers are getting paid multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, and often literally millions?

Do people know that anybody working on technical AI safety could be making way more money if they worked for the for-profits instead of working at a nonprofit?

Their reasoning is that charity workers say they are pushing for regulations to protect humanity from corporate greed, but secretly, it’s actually to do regulatory capture so that OpenAI can have a monopoly?

Because, you know, the charity workers and academics will make sooooo much money from OpenAI?

As compared to, you know, the people who are actually working at these big tech companies?

It’s like if oil companies accused climate activists of trying to stop oil spills because the activists just want to profit off of oil companies.

People are indeed motivated by money, but it’s not the people who are working at charities and in academia.

It’s the people making millions off of playing Russian roulette with everybody’s lives.