The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie

The events of the last 24 hours are stunning. And not in a good way. Nothing like this has ever happened in the history of tech, and it’s unfolding right now.

Here’s a start. Maybe you’ve already heard about the guy who resigned from OpenAI. He warned that the technology could kill everybody before the end of the decade.

He made this announcement just 20 hours ago:

Is this really true? Maybe Coxon is just a disgruntled employee. We need to find out what other insiders think.

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As if in answer to this question, another AI scientist—Evan Hubinger at Anthropic—quickly moved to endorse Coxon’s concerns.

Then Alex Turner, who recently left Google, said the exact same thing.

Here’s what Anna Wang at Anthropic has to say.

Samuel Marks, a Harvard PhD who works at Anthropic, offered more details—but comes to the same conclusion.

Jason Wolfe at OpenAI is also worried.

Here’s what Jonathan Richard Schwarz, formerly with Google, has to say.

And, finally, here is what Jakub Pachocki the Chief Scientist at OpenAI, tells us:

The AI fanboys are trying to defuse this situation. But their responses fall apart at the slightest touch. Consider the smear that this is just a PR campaign. Really? Others are hinting it could be a Chinese plot. Yeah, sure….

But the biggest lie is the claim that these people don’t know what they are talking about. The reality is that they understand this subject better than anybody.

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What’s happening here is obvious—eight different people building this technology are afraid of what they’re seeing. But they don’t have the power individually to stop the insanity.

If this isn’t a call to action, I don’t know what is. Trillions of dollars are getting pumped into a runaway technology, and the public already hates it intensely. Now the people making it happen are warning it just might kill everybody.

This demands a response from the highest circles of power and authority. If that doesn’t happen, we will live to regret this inaction. And that’s the best case scenario. The worst is that there won’t be anyone left to regret a thing.