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The contagion of fear

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The contagion of fear Bryan Cantrill responds to the tweet by former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon confirming that many Anthropic researchers believe AI "could kill us all by the end of the decade". Bryan shares a story of his own youthful mistakes causing unjustified panic among less technical pe…

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  1. 2026-09-14 21:18 · Simon Willison's Weblog
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