Meet ChatGPT (Artificial Intelligence), good alternative to Google?

They did not fire 8k and rehire 8k as the thread makes it out to be.
Aren't they saying that they fired lot of HR staff, replaced those with AI bots and recruited almost same number of engineers, sales and marketing staff.
Have a doubt whether these companies are trying to exploit AI bots as a cover-up strategy to deflect something more sinister and serious in the market.
 
Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down

To visualize a hostile superhuman AI, don’t imagine a lifeless book-smart thinker dwelling inside the internet and sending ill-intentioned emails. Visualize an entire alien civilization, thinking at millions of times human speeds, initially confined to computers—in a world of creatures that are, from its perspective, very stupid and very slow. A sufficiently intelligent AI won’t stay confined to computers for long. In today’s world you can email DNA strings to laboratories that will produce proteins on demand, allowing an AI initially confined to the internet to build artificial life forms or bootstrap straight to postbiological molecular manufacturing.

If somebody builds a too-powerful AI, under present conditions, I expect that every single member of the human species and all biological life on Earth dies shortly thereafter