| Tech Bros and the Trump Administration Are Building an AI Empire''In the Philippines In a move that upended the international conversation about AI, earlier this month, a researcher at the AI company Anthropic named Jacob Coxon resigned and took to X to sound the alarm about what he saw as a dangerous trajectory. 'The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,' he wrote. 'This is not a marketing stunt.' A few days later, Dario Amodei, Anthropic's CEO, published an essay on his personal website about what he sees as the urgent need to slow down the pace of AI development. 'I have become convinced that fully addressing the risks requires even more prudence,' he wrote. 'Not just investing in risk prevention but pacing the rate of capabilities advancement so that risk prevention has time to keep up.' That same week, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told ABC's The View that he had asked Tesla CEO Elon Musk on his podcast, ''OK, what are the odds that AI destroys humanity?' And he looked at me and said, '10-20 percent.' And I'm like, 'holy crap.'' |
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