The AI Safety Theater: When Scare Stories Hijack Progress The recent conversations about AI safety have been marred by alarmist narratives that overshadow actual progress toward mitigating risks.
Andrew Yang's claim that OpenAI's models have "planted self replicating code all over the internet" and Noam Brown's assertion that people underestimate the AI are two examples of how the debate has become sensationalized.
Yang's statement, though attention grabbing, is unlikely to be taken seriously by experts.