Anthropic · OpenAI · Dario Amodei · Donald Trump · The Atlantic Technology
In recent days, it has come to seem as if the media, Silicon Valley
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One 27-year-old quit his job, and everybody (including but not limited to the singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow) appears to have lost it.
Key facts
- The 27-year-old, Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at Anthropic, went public with an alarming allegation: That the people inside Silicon Valley’s leading AI companies truly believe their products
- As one X account pointed out, “If you truly believed in a 10% chance of human extinction in 3 years, you would not be spending your time selling and integrating it into a B2B CRM SaaS platform
- One 27-year-old quit his job, and everybody (including but not limited to the singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow) appears to have lost it
- AI culture has long been predisposed to doomerism: As Coxon told The New York Times recently, “The reporter has been stuck in this field for three years
Summary
The past two weeks have been dizzying. The 27-year-old, Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at Anthropic, went public with an alarming allegation: That the people inside Silicon Valley’s leading AI companies truly believe their products might pose an extinction level threat to humanity. Yet Coxon’s post went obscenely viral. It has roiled Washington D.C., activating figures as disparate as Donald Trump and Barack Obama. Here’s where the reporter must admit: A big chunk of this conversation happened while the reporter was on a (depending on whom you ask) poorly timed vacation. Ping-ponging between the doomers and the skeptics, the reporter was struck by how certain so many people sounded about a deeply uncertain moment. Maybe the truth of this AI moment sits somewhere in the middle.