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Tech Leaders Demand a Pause on Superintelligence
Season 1 Episode 1849
In this episode, Ray breaks down a petition signed by 800+ leaders calling to pause the superintelligence race, then digs into AWS outage chatter about AI replacing DevOps, and Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot privacy concerns. Plus: a prompt trick that boosts LLM accuracy, a 2-billion-FPS camera that visualizes light, and JAXA’s HTV-X cargo launch to the ISS.
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Full Summary
In this episode of the Geek News Central podcast, host Ray Cochrane opens by welcoming listeners to episode 1849. He leads with the new story about over 800 tech leaders, including figures like Steve Wozniak and Richard Branson, signing a petition to pause the development of superintelligent AI due to concerns that its rapid advancement could exceed human control. Cochrane reflects on this unified public statement, highlighting concerns about AI’s societal implications and the need for regulatory oversight, especially given the current inability of infrastructure to support extensive AI supercomputing facilities.
Following this segment, Ray shares personal updates about a busy week at school and some beta testing at Blubrry. He then thanks the sponsor, GoDaddy, and encourages listeners to take advantage of exclusive deals on their website. He reminds listeners about supporting the podcast by signing up for newsletters and becoming insiders.
Transitioning to tech news, Ray discusses an AWS outage that occurred after Amazon ALLEGEDLY replaced a significant portion of its DevOps team with AI, according to internal Slack messages and communications that were “removed”. He conveys skepticism towards the news, stressing the dangers of relying solely on automation without human intervention in critical infrastructure roles. Though it’s currently unconfirmed whether this piece of gossip is genuine, the implications could be concerning, particularly given the idea of large-scale automation of systems that once required significant human oversight.
Ray continues with more news about AI, referencing another article about Microsoft’s gaming Copilot facing privacy backlash after failing privacy audits that revealed it continued to record user data despite being disabled. He further highlights that this new ‘Feature’ is installed without confirmation or request, silently added in the background. This type of invasive behav
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