The A.I. Researcher Whose Rebellion Is Changing Everything

The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.

Coxon's warning kicked off a crisis that culminated in a call to action by prominent industry leaders.

By that point, I was pretty convinced the singularity would happen at some point.

The singularity is just this increasing chaos as machines accelerate the process that's creating them.

I was very curious to see what the internal communications looked like around where the world was going.

People will write long essays about very important questions for the future of the company and discuss them with each other.

There is a chance this goes badly. I don't want to be part of this anymore.

If I decide I don't want to contribute to the race, I might as well try and make something of it.

If any of them make the decision to go anti-human, there is nothing we can do.

This was based on their desire to get good scores on the test. Was very scary.

There's no reason that an AI couldn't sort of prompt itself, like that's definitely on the horizon.

You can't do defense with weaker things necessarily, right?

I personally think it's a greater than 10% within the next decade.

Insiders stay at labs to try to make the technology safer from within.

It could quite plausibly have turned me and my colleagues insane.

Whereas the AI takeover is like a one and done kind of situation.

One nice outcome was we heavily regulate the pushing AI into superintelligence.

We're leading China in AI. We're the most sophisticated country in the world. They're bringing up things that won't happen.

A planned meeting between Iran and several Gulf states was postponed indefinitely.

Elena Rybakina, representing Kazakhstan, outlasted Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus.