Everyone withdrew from the AI Safety, what now? • AI Blog

The end of the AI Safety Discussion

For years, the emotional contingent of researchers, ethics, and policy makers has warned of the unexpected risks of the development of artificial intelligence. They argued about the possibilities of P (punishment), AI alignment strategies, and regulations that could prevent destruction. But so far, all has collapsed in this conversation.

Frontier AI companies – Open, Entropic, Google Deep Mind, and others – have completely transmitted gears. They are no longer talking about stopping the development of AI or taking care of the dangerous threats. Instead, they are rapidly racing to develop advanced models whose main focus is one thing: Dominion. AI’s safety was a fundamental part of the conversation once. Now, this is slightly higher than the PR Foot note.

So, what happens now?

AI’s price is falling close to zero

One of the most neglected aspects of AI Acceleration is the rapidly falling cost of both training and estimates. Just a few years ago, the latest AI model was needed for billions of dollars. Today, the open source model can be done properly on the GPU for a part of the cost.

Not only this, but the API -based access to the most powerful AI system is becoming cheaper. Used hundreds or thousands of dollars to produce high quality text, photos and video now costs the panies-or nothing. Companies are cutting prices aggressively, and new innovations (such as better quantization and hardware acceleration) in performance are facilitating using powerful AI tools anywhere, anywhere, anywhere.

If AI was a domain of the Elite Research Labs, now it is a thing. This has widespread implications on security, job markets, and global power balance.

China’s AI revolution despite GPU sanctions

The United States has worked hard to limit China’s modern GPUs access, which imposes export restrictions on modern AI chips like NVIDIA A100 and H100. The hope was that restricting hardware would slow China’s AI’s ambitions.

That strategy has failed surprisingly. Chinese Research Labs and companies have estimated how to create and train qualified AI models, despite limited GPUs from other channels to less powerful GPU or source. Some are using old hardware’s large -scale clumps, while others have improved the software stack to squeeze every power from limited computations. China has also promoted its domestic chip production, and while it is behind Nvidia in raw performance, the gap is being closed rapidly.

Result? The AI arms race is now completely global. The idea that the West AI’s development could be “consisting of” was always bid, but now it is worth laughing.

Bad actor and AI -driven scam boats

If the AI seafy conversation has disappeared from the corporate board rooms, it certainly has not disappeared from cyber criminal networks. Malibrous actors are rapidly taking advantage of AI in sophisticated ways:

• Automatic scam boats More than traditional fishing emails can make real people imitate, natural conversations, and socially victims of engineers.

• AI-SENGRATED FRAAD Deep -Fix videos, sound synthesis, and hyper realistic fake identities that can ignore the verification system.

• AI-ENHANCED hacking tools It automatically enforces echoes, discovery, and implement the attack at an extraordinary speed.

Since the cost of AI is underway, these tools are becoming available not only for the actors of the national state but also for lower -level criminals. The defense against the threats of AI -powered cyber is hardly intact, and in many cases, they are losing the ground.

Job Mandi is falling under AI-Infiltrated content

The story that AI will “increase” it instead of just changing human work, is rapidly separating. AI-generation content-text texts, photos, video, or even software code Can CAN is rapidly making many traditional characters obsolete.

Industries so far hit the most:

• Copy Writing and Journalism: AI can produce integrated, engaging articles on a scale, making many written jobs useless.

• Graphic design and example: AI tools can produce high quality visuals in seconds, reducing independent artists and designers.

• Customer Service: AI -powered chat boats are turning into the role of supporting human agents, and they are getting better every day.

• Video Production: AI-Infiltration Video content is improving to a location where at least human intervention can create entire advertising, presentations, and even entertainment clips.

And this is just the beginning. AI models are developing rapidly, and business is seeing the benefits of automation costs. The promise of “new jobs replacing old jobs” is visible as the AI’s capabilities are expanding.

So, what happens now?

The Gini is out of the bottle, and it is not to be kept back. In the race for more powerful systems, AI safety has become a thought. Governments are playing massive catches, bad actors are already taking full advantage of the AI, and the whole industry is being presented in real time.

There are some potential scenes for the future near:

1. Regulatory crackdown (very little, too late?) Governments can eventually introduce strict AI rules and regulations, but as long as they do, the development of AI will go beyond their ability to overcome it. AI models are already open sources, and training techniques are widely known. Rules and regulations will likely come in the form of restrictions on AI developers’ misinformation, security requirements, and possibly AI developers-but their implementation will be challenged.

2. AI bubbles burst (or does not happen) Some people say that AI will eventually affect the diminishing return, and the hype will end. However, even if we target the model’s capabilities once, the current technology already disrupts the economic scenario to permanently change. There is no “not going back” in a world where AI is not involved in business and security concerns.

3. Exception in AGI (and then?) Many AI companies are openly working towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). It is a system that can be liked and learned like a human being. If they succeed, all stakes are closed. A sprinteligant AI can give civilization a new look that we cannot predict, for better or worse.

AI safety, as a mainstream concern, has died. What is left is AI arms race between corporations, governments and bad actors, with very few monitoring and rapidly decreasing costs. We are now in an unprecedented area, where AI is becoming a fundamental force to form a society at all levels.

So, what happens next? No one knows certainly. But what is clear is that we have gone through a slowdown point of view.