Sam Altman addresses AI doomsday fears in new interview
Elon Musk’s p(doom) has hovered between 10% and 20%, while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s has been slightly higher at 10% to 25%. But the explosive moment was reminiscent of COVID circa February 2020, when the public finally took seriously what the scientific community had been saying all along: This is no joke. I flew to San Francisco to find the person best positioned to answer where AI is today, and whether it can be built safely ahead.
- ▪Elon Musk’s p(doom) has hovered between 10% and 20%, while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s has been slightly higher at 10% to 25%.
- ▪But the explosive moment was reminiscent of COVID circa February 2020, when the public finally took seriously what the scientific community had been saying all along: This is no joke.
- ▪I flew to San Francisco to find the person best positioned to answer where AI is today, and whether it can be built safely ahead.
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AI concerns hit a fever pitch this week when an Anthropic employee warned on X that all of humanity could be destroyed by the technology and that major frontier labs were “gambling with our lives.”Recommended Video The probability of doom, or “p(doom),” is real and has been publicly discussed in the AI community for years. Elon Musk’s p(doom) has hovered between 10% and 20%, while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s has been slightly higher at 10% to 25%. But the explosive moment was reminiscent of COVID circa February 2020, when the public finally took seriously what the scientific community had been saying all along: This is no joke. I flew to San Francisco to find the person best positioned to answer where AI is today, and whether it can be built safely ahead.
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