The contagion of fear
Bryan Cantrill rebuts ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's claims that AI could kill humanity, warning such doomsday predictions cause unjustified panic.
Simon Willison highlights Bryan Cantrill's response to former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon's tweet that many Anthropic researchers believe AI 'could kill us all by the end of the decade'. Cantrill recounts his own youthful mistake of triggering unjustified panic among less technical peers and argues extinction claims rest on hand-wavy extrapolation such as 'hacking critical infrastructure'.
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