How worried should you be about AI destroying humanity?

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photos: via X, OpenAI, and Anthropic

Explaining why the "people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade" — and exploring whether you should take them seriously.

It's not every day that a single social media post seems to induce a mass outbreak of existential panic, but that's what happened earlier this week when a man named Jacob Coxon took to X to announce that he was quitting his job at one of the world's leading artificial intelligence companies. 

"I resigned from Anthropic today," Coxon posted on Tuesday evening, noting that he had "spent the last three years doing pretraining research" for both his former employer and its major competitor, OpenAI. "Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives."

 

By Andrew Romano 

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