If the AI Industry Followed Its Own Research, It Might Have Paused Already
In early 2025 I was interviewing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei when he explained why, despite the company’s repeated acknowledgments that AI could yield catastrophic results, people seemed largely unperturbed. “There is compelling evidence that the models can wreak havoc,” he said. But, he added, those dangers were still theoretical. Would it take a Pearl Harbor–like situation for the world to wake up to those dire possibilities? He sighed. “Basically, yeah,” he said.
As it turned out, all it took was a well-timed X post from one of Amodei’s junior employees to accelerate AI fears to the top of the global agenda. On September 8, Jacob Coxonpublicly posted his resignation, charging that Anthropic and other frontier AI companies were “racing straight to self-improving intelligence and gambling with our lives.” Almost instantly a more senior Anthropic engineer confirmed that many within the company thought that their work had a 10 percent...
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