Comment by veerd

Agreed. It's difficult for me to see how the regulatory capture arguments apply to Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio (!!).

Both of them are criticizing their own life's work and the source of their prestige. That has to be emotionally painful. They aren't doing it for fun.

I totally understand not agreeing with AI x-risk concerns on an object level, but I find the casual dismissal bizarre.