You don’t need AI to figure out why some big businesses invite government oversight.
Over the last few days, leaders of major AI companies
. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, recently wrote about his concerns over recursive self-improvement. That is when AI builds a better version of AI. These systems “could outrun our ability to understand and control these systems, and so must be pursued very carefully, if at all,” he wrote.
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If development continues at its present pace, he speculated that a swarm of AI agents soon “could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet (potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage).”
In response to his blog post, Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, which includes xAI,
wrote
, “Dario is right.” Sam Altman, the leader of OpenAI, recently said his company would hold off on its IPO due to safety issues.
These comments
. Last week, Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic researcher, said he was quitting the company.
“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt,” Coxon
wrote on X
.
“We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I p...