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‘Too little, too late’: critics perplexed and suspicious of AI leaders’ call for a slowdown
www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/13/too-little-too-late-critics-perplexed-and-suspicious-of-ai-leaders-call-for-a-slowdown
Replying to @Wurzl@lemmy.zip
resigning Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade”.
Can we, maybe, NOT build the big human eating machine?
Replying to @jpreston2005@lemmy.world
The Torment Nexus? But it sounded so cool in that classic sci fi novel “Don’t Create the Torment Nexus”
Replying to @jpreston2005@lemmy.world
It’s lucky for us that they are wrong. Still, it’s disturbing how eager they are given that belief. I will never be able to understand people trying to end the world.
I mean, I get being nihilistic, but being enthusiasticly so is baffling.