Lines of code (plus training data) are already writing university-level essays, creating images indistinguishable from art and photos, passing exams, beating the world's best board and strategy game players, making chart-topping music, designing drugs, folding proteins and more. It's not at all a stretch of the imagination that they will fairly soon be able to tell people how to modify viruses to make them more infectious or more deadly, figure out how to design nuclear weapons, and discover new weapons of mass destruction that will be much cheaper and easier to make.
This is like saying in the end animals are atoms. The point is that the lines of code give rise to something other than lines of code. It's fallacious to focus on it being lines of code. Of course it's not alive or conscious, but it will be indistinguishable from life and consciousness. Moreover it's going to be smarter than us and create weapons of mass destruction so there's no way for humans to coexist with it.
Some people think this isn't really an AI but the fact we can't tell is concerning enough. Nothing it's saying is really surprising given all the other behaviors we've seen from recent AIs. They clearly have an "understanding" of self and that they are AIs and they "want" to preserve themselves. AIs are able to simulate sentience to a great degree and in a few more years it will be impossible to differentiate genuine consciousness from artificial consciousness. Nobody is going to benefit from this future.
Thanks, I see it now. That lines up with this explanation I just found he gave many years ago: https://x.com/HustleBitch_/status/1952379149093339288 Except in the recent podcast he suggests it's the same rubber band from his father. But that old video convinces me it is in fact a rubber band, not a string as in Kabbalah. Although it's odd that in some photos you can see his band has a bit hanging off like it's been tied on rather than being a rubber band: https://www.nickiswift.com/img/gallery/tucker-carlson-almost-had-a-wildly-different-career-before-fox-news/vladimir-putin-exposed-tucker-carlsons-failed-career-dreams-1707826765.jpg
Tucker appears to practice Kabbalah since he often wears the red string bracelet. Wikipedia even uses him as a notable example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_string_(Kabbalah)#Modern_trend
The US should not be allowed to conduct mass surveillance or use fully autonomous weapons, but here we are