The Paper of Record had a good article today about existential AI risk, mentioning EY:
In the early 2000s, a young writer named Eliezer Yudkowsky began warning that A.I. could destroy humanity. His online posts spawned a community of believers. Called rationalists or effective altruists, this community became enormously influential in academia, government think tanks and the tech industry.
It even mentioned Clippy!
The worriers have often used a simple metaphor. If you ask a machine to create as many paper clips as possible, they say, it could get carried away and transform everything — including humanity — into paper clip factories.
Very happy to see this.
I agree that, given the dynamics, it's rare to get a great journalist on a technical subject (we're lucky to have Zeynep Tufekci on public health), but my opinion is that Metz has a negative Value Over Replacement Tech Journalist, that coverage of AI in the NYT would be significantly more accurate if he quit and was replaced by whomever the Times would poach.