{"id":929,"date":"2025-03-09T17:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T17:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=929"},"modified":"2025-03-09T17:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T17:08:12","slug":"they-wanted-to-save-us-from-a-dark-ai-future-then-six-people-were-killed-j-oliver-conroy-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/they-wanted-to-save-us-from-a-dark-ai-future-then-six-people-were-killed-j-oliver-conroy-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThey wanted to save us from a dark AI future. Then six people were killed\u201d &#8211; J Oliver Conroy (The Guardian)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cConfusion and disillusion slowly set in. Many people had paid dearly, personally and financially, to come to northern California to solve the alignment problem. They\u2019d devoted years to the mission, often at great opportunity cost to their careers. They\u2019d made the best friends they\u2019d ever had, and then \u2013 in an environment where some people believed it was literally impossible to agree to disagree \u2013 lost them to bitter intellectual schisms, exhaustion and nervous collapse. They\u2019d sacrificed to be present at the birth of the future, and now discovered that the future was already being born elsewhere\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/ng-interactive\/2025\/mar\/05\/zizians-artificial-intelligence\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/ng-interactive\/2025\/mar\/05\/zizians-artificial-intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cConfusion and disillusion slowly set in. Many people had paid dearly, personally and financially, to come to northern California to solve the alignment problem. They\u2019d devoted years to the mission, often at great opportunity cost to their careers. They\u2019d made the best friends they\u2019d ever had, and then \u2013 in an environment where some people&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}