Why Does Everyone Suddenly Think AI Is Going to Kill Us?
Today I am going to explore five (5) explanations for the sudden AI-doom explosion, from genuine danger to regulatory capture, liability, a supposedly “polluted” internet, and the possibility that fear itself is fantastic marketing.
You must have noticed the shift in the AI narrative. Not long ago, all we heard was ‘AI is going to make everyone more productive,’ and then it morphed into ‘AI is going to take everyone’s job,’ and now, apparently, ‘AI might kill everyone’.
In the words of the great Ron Burgundy, “That escalated quickly”.
Over the past few weeks, some of the people actually building frontier AI systems have started sounding a tad more nervous. Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit and publicly warned that the AI industry was “gambling with our lives.” His post exploded past 160 million views. Then, to add credibility to a questionable headline, Coxon told Axios that he left Anthropic ‘before...
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