Followup to "AI Won't Doom Us All" Video to address bad study from comments
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There's an AI Doomer talking point about "distraction" supposedly being "disproven" that I didn't address in my last video, so I made a followup.
Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaFTqjYjADw
00:00 Intro
00:49 The bad Study in Question
02:06 Breaking down what they actually did
05:09 Summarizing the comparison
06:11 A Bioethics Paper on X-Risk that addresses the talking point
06:25 And it looks like it's about to get worse
Links from this Video:
The good study on this issue
[^0]: https://jme.bmj.com/content/medethics/early/2024/04/04/jme-2023-109702.full.pdf
Headlines about the bad study
[^1]: https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2025/fear-of-ki-risks.html
https://neurosciencenews.com/ai-harm-fear-psychology-28708/
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sHXGRTTs4SrceEnoG/worries-about-ai-are-usually-complements-not-substitutes
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-current-ai-alarming-apocalyptic-future.html
The Bad Study Itself
[^2]: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2419055122
The University who made the bad study having to apologize to reddit
[^3]: https://www.science.org/content/article/unethical-ai-research-reddit-under-fire
Examples of prevalence of "catastrophe" and "environmental disasters"
https://www.munichre.com/en/company/media-relations/media-information-and-corporate-news/media-information/2025/natural-disaster-figures-first-half-2025.html
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388517889_It's_Time_to_Consider_Global_Catastrophic_Food_Failures/link/68b1abf23391fb1a7a4c29e5/download
Prevalence of wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts
Examples of Actual Harm done by AI:
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/08/after-using-chatgpt-man-swaps-his-salt-for-sodium-bromide-and-suffers-psychosis/
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/self-driving-uber-car-hit-killed-woman-did-not-recognize-n1079281
https://gmauthority.com/blog/2024/01/gms-cruise-av-incident-heres-why-the-car-dragged-the-pedestrian-20-feet/
https://sfstandard.com/2025/05/11/ai-chatbots-fake-therapists/
https://abc7ny.com/post/man-falsely-jailed-nypds-facial-recognition-surveillance-tech-failed/17664671/
OpenAI Announcement that they're lifting restrictions
https://x.com/sama/status/1978129344598827128
Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaFTqjYjADw
00:00 Intro
00:49 The bad Study in Question
02:06 Breaking down what they actually did
05:09 Summarizing the comparison
06:11 A Bioethics Paper on X-Risk that addresses the talking point
06:25 And it looks like it's about to get worse
Links from this Video:
The good study on this issue
[^0]: https://jme.bmj.com/content/medethics/early/2024/04/04/jme-2023-109702.full.pdf
Headlines about the bad study
[^1]: https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2025/fear-of-ki-risks.html
https://neurosciencenews.com/ai-harm-fear-psychology-28708/
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sHXGRTTs4SrceEnoG/worries-about-ai-are-usually-complements-not-substitutes
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-current-ai-alarming-apocalyptic-future.html
The Bad Study Itself
[^2]: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2419055122
The University who made the bad study having to apologize to reddit
[^3]: https://www.science.org/content/article/unethical-ai-research-reddit-under-fire
Examples of prevalence of "catastrophe" and "environmental disasters"
https://www.munichre.com/en/company/media-relations/media-information-and-corporate-news/media-information/2025/natural-disaster-figures-first-half-2025.html
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388517889_It's_Time_to_Consider_Global_Catastrophic_Food_Failures/link/68b1abf23391fb1a7a4c29e5/download
Prevalence of wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts
Examples of Actual Harm done by AI:
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/08/after-using-chatgpt-man-swaps-his-salt-for-sodium-bromide-and-suffers-psychosis/
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/self-driving-uber-car-hit-killed-woman-did-not-recognize-n1079281
https://gmauthority.com/blog/2024/01/gms-cruise-av-incident-heres-why-the-car-dragged-the-pedestrian-20-feet/
https://sfstandard.com/2025/05/11/ai-chatbots-fake-therapists/
https://abc7ny.com/post/man-falsely-jailed-nypds-facial-recognition-surveillance-tech-failed/17664671/
OpenAI Announcement that they're lifting restrictions
https://x.com/sama/status/1978129344598827128
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