Tapping the Brakes on a Digital God: Inside the Unprecedented AI Bipartisan Panic

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Early in September, a series of viral doomsday warnings from current and former researchers at the AI startup Anthropic triggered widespread alarm and bipartisan panic across the US Congress. What Anthropic started has now snowballed.

On one hand, you have rank-and-file engineers who are genuinely terrified and quitting because they believe the tech is genuinely dangerous. On the other hand, the corporate entity is riding those exact waves of terror straight to Wall Street for the biggest IPO in tech history.

AI-connected stocks fell sharply after the CEOs of the US companies developing the most advanced AI models warned the pace of ?development must slow to prevent threats to humanity.

The panic was sparked by a 3,800-word essay published by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei titled “We Must Pace the Frontier,“in which he warned that AI is advancing drastically faster because it is now being used to build the...

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