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"The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade"

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Quite dystopian to say the least, but worth the read. Wall Street Journal - Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI Fears Geoffrey Hinton (Godfather of AI) & Alex Sobel TLDR; (saw the need for this because ppl are losing the plot) A guy called Jacob Coxon who was a former RL dev at Anth…

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Timeline · 5 reports

  1. 2026-09-09 14:20 · TechXplore AI & ML
    'Gambling with our lives': AI researcher quits Anthropic
  2. 2026-09-09 12:15 · r/antiai
    AI scientist quits Anthropic and warns machines could 'kill us all' in 5 years
  3. 2026-09-09 10:45 · r/ClaudeAI
    Anthropic researcher quits, saying Anthropic and OpenAI are 'gambling with our lives'
  4. 2026-09-09 10:31 · r/antiai
    ‘The People Building AI Earnestly Believe That It Could Kill Us All’: Anthropic Researcher Quits Dramatically
  5. 2026-09-09 05:23 · r/OpenAI
    "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade"

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