The Warning Label Is The Pitch

AI labs' doomsday warnings function as valuation-anchoring marketing, while the real near-term risk is humans over-trusting flawed AI outputs in consequential decisions.

• $15M to beat a rumor: OpenAI spent an estimated $15 million in compute over three days to solve the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, fearing Anthropic (a lone researcher there) was close.
• Training-data ethics backlash: Mathematicians, including Terence Tao, accused OpenAI of training on researchers' own shared chat logs/papers to beat them to a result they'd been building toward for years.

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