We have started losing control of AI. It’s time to shut it down | Garrison Lovely

What sounds like the overwrought penultimate episode in a sci-fi series about AI doom is now our reality On Tuesday, a former OpenAI researcher quit his job at Anthropic, warning that “neither company is acting responsibly” and that “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.

This is not a marketing stunt.” As someone who’s reported on AI risk for years, this wasn’t news to me.

But the outpouring of alarm suggests a much wider public is properly confronting this ludicrous situation for the first time.

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