The AI doomsdayers arent new. You just werent paying attention.
News Source : Business Insider
News Summary
- Former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon warned that "the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade" The post set off a firestorm of AI lab employees building their own extinction theories and spitballing percentage chances of imminent death.
- But let's be real: AI doomerism has run rampant in Silicon Valley for years.
- In July, rogue OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face — and cracked open a whole new layer of AI worry.
Tech workers have warned about an AI apocalypse for years. Why is it so viral now?
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