AI will kill us all? It’s all just marketing? There has to be a better explanation. And there is.

Coxon’s warning was backed by two Anthropic colleagues. Systems being built, he wrote, would ‘hack anything, revolutionise any field overnight, and acquire real power and…

Their warnings came just days after top OpenAI leaders, including CEO Sam Altman, said AI is speeding into a scary, uncontrollable phase.

AI doomerism risks scaring Americans into bad policy, slowing innovation, and unnecessarily surrendering technological leadership to China.

Some quick notes on a truly weird week.