AI doom prophecies on YouTube continue to target children/young adults – adding 'doom' to their 'doomscrolling' Some of the anxiety-inducing fearmongering is funded by EA, including $10M from Open Philanthropy given to Kurzgesagt ($7.3M) and Rational Animations ($2.7M)
@DrTechlash Yet you have had provided no solid information against AI risk.
@DrTechlash Indeed, the doompushing is nuts
@DrTechlash It's how you spice things up. Not "the earthquake" but "the earthquake of doom!" Or of despair, or of horror etc. I knew some kids who were terrified the world was going to end in 2012. They grew up safe and cynical.
@DrTechlash @WesRothMoney Ultimate Truth is too hard to handle
@DrTechlash hard to believe "AI 2027" has 3 million youtube views alone
@DrTechlash what makes you say that they're targeted to children/young adults. the fact that the videos are animated?
@DrTechlash Bunch of loonies.
@DrTechlash The algorithm really pushes AI-doom content; it keeps appearing in recommendations even when you're uninterested and haven't watched any of this stuff
@DrTechlash @jonst0kes I thought kurzgesagt mainly did videos about neutron stars black holes and other space stuff that's what I know them for at least
@DrTechlash Dystopias and bad news always sell better. The real issue is that AI might make life harder for young people, not because of doom, but because companies stop offering learning-by-doing opportunities.That's not the end of the world.The end comes when humans lose control over AI.🤣
@DrTechlash >Some of the anxiety-inducing fearmongering is funded by EA Is it correct that you are funded by the companies building Frontier Models?
@DrTechlash The one on the right are the videos by kurzgesagt, they make videos like this only since the very beginning. They are not targeting anyone it's their style

