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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They’re not actually worried about AI gaining sentience. They’re bullshitting. A better question is, why are they bullshitting? And I think the answer is some combination of:

  • Free advertising for their company.
  • To lobby for laws that:
    • Pull the ladder up behind them;
    • block Chinese AI from competing with them on their own turf.
[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago

Everyone stops developing but them.

But more likely they're playing out the marketing angle that omg they've made something so smart it frightens them