I dont really like the evidence used in this video. He makes a strong accusation of direct lying and then bases his argument on his own opinion of how fast AI is improving vs Atomics and uses little real metric besides vague comparisons. He uses books on the singularity, the inception of machine learning, and the time between the Manhattan project to nuke production as leverage but all he really shows is that he disapproves of the comparison. Not that the comparison is inaccurate.

Now I don’t like the comparison or Hank himself but this feels disingenuous.

His next point was the omission of the details of the UN document about how AI is dangerous for our future (that a bunch of Nobel Prize winners and AI scientists signed.)

Hank did mention the better known portion about the dangers of AI and he does leave out the rest which include potential disinformation campaigns using AI, human rights violations, and mass unemployment. This is fact. But I don’t feel misled or lied to by the omission. The quote he mentions is short and sweet and well known.

“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”

That’s really the meat of the issue anyway. Not reading the additional paragraphs is an technically an omission but not even close to as grievous an omission as the video’s creator makes it out to be.