“We’ll just unplug it” isn’t a plan

Why the people building AI are the ones sounding the alarm, and what you can do about it

I’ve spent my career telling you not to be afraid of technology. I meant it when the desktop computer and then the internet showed up. I meant it when smartphones arrived. And I mean it today when I tell you artificial intelligence may be the most important thing humans have ever built. I use it every single day.

Something is happening right now that you need to understand. Some of the people building the most powerful AI on Earth are warning that one day we could lose control of it. 

Not villains. Not doomsday YouTubers. The engineers.

The guy who walked out

On September 8, a researcher named Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic, the company behind Claude. He spent about three years between Anthropic and OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, most of it at OpenAI. He quit before his stock vested. That’s like walking out the week before your bonus hits.

His goodbye post got more than 90 million views in a day. The line everyone shared: the big AI companies are “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.”...

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RSK: A great synopsis of AI and will it make humans extinct by one of the greats.