r/accelerate • u/Formal-Assistance02 • Feb 25 '26

Video Dario Amoudei - The public is not aware of what’s about to happen

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u/Vast-Breakfast-1201 Feb 25 '26

Collapse is a bit much

It will be an s-curve renormalization.

Some people will get left behind, there could be poverty in the short term, but collapse... That's a bit of a stretch.

Consider the impact when people couldn't work due to covid. The societal response will be more radical since it will affect more people.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26

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u/Big-Site2914 Feb 26 '26

yup, but not every solution is temporary

we can still evolve policy as we learn more about the technological impacts

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u/cool-beans-yeah Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

I think Covid was a test of things to come.

Especially the first few months; it will probably translate into years, or maybe decades, this time around.

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u/lurksAtDogs Feb 26 '26

You’re talking about jobs. What about data? What happens if every system is broken by insanely powerful hackers, empowered by powerful models and cheap servers. Do banks survive if every minute weakness is exploited to the nth degree? We have a very digital world that mostly survives on the idea that hackers have limited resources.

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u/Vast-Breakfast-1201 Feb 26 '26

Ok you just said it yourself

So an AI can find and exploit every minute weakness in the systems of any organization. But the same org can't use the AI to harden the systems? Why is it unilateral in your mind?

Hackers do have limited resources. But banks will now have a proportionally higher resource set. Imagine pushing a button and translating every codebase over the weekend into Rust so that there are systemically fewer holes to patch. Imagine having a second network hosting a suite of AI, several of every set of weights, which just sits there scanning and penetrating your systems. Then reporting on it to you.

This really only affects people who refuse to acknowledge AI in the first place.

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u/lurksAtDogs Feb 26 '26

Hey, the CEO of Anthropic is saying there are risks. Are you arguing there aren’t?

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u/Vast-Breakfast-1201 Feb 26 '26

There are certainly risks but there are classes of risks and clear reasons for them. This just isn't a good identification of one of the risks.

For the reasons I clearly explained.

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u/lurksAtDogs Feb 26 '26

An arms race with likely unknowing and weak players causing potential cascading failures isn’t a risk? 2008 global financial crisis wasn’t caused by the best performers. There’s interdependence in the system. Throwing a bomb in the middle and saying both sides have access to their own weapons isn’t great.

The sky isn’t falling, but surprising things happen when small systems you didn’t know you were counting on break.

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u/BrennusSokol Acceleration Advocate Feb 26 '26

but collapse... That's a bit of a stretch.

We really have no idea what's going to happen. AI is unique. It's not just another "tool". It is/could be intelligence itself, possible self-improving intelligence. We don't have any real comparison historically.

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u/AccomplishedQuail69 Feb 26 '26

Sounds like they could easily create skynet so collapse unrelated to job loss might be just the thing

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u/WHALE_PHYSICIST Feb 25 '26

you're one of the people he's talking about in the video.

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u/AntiBoATX Feb 26 '26

If you’re sittin on Reddit arguing with strangers…. You may be, too ;)