AI Labs Warn of Extinction. Their Safety Policies Tell a Different Story
Sometime in the second week of September you read a quote from a man who had just quit his job at an AI company. It said the people building this technology believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade. You read it on a screenshot, or somebody read it to you, and then you kept scrolling. So did I. What I didn’t do for about a day and a half was open the thing underneath it.
There was a whole thread under that quote. Under the thread there’s a policy document. And on page three of the policy document there’s a sentence that I think is the actual story.
What the three of them actually said
Jacob Coxon spent three years doing pretraining research, first at OpenAI and then at Anthropic. On September 8 he resigned and posted seven times in a row explaining why. The...
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