AI might kill me, but first it’s going to get me a hell of a deal on a new insurance policy.
That’s been the vibe in the tech world over the past few weeks. Two very different opinions about the future of AI.
In one corner are the doomers. Earlier this month, an Anthropic researcher’s resignation and stark warning — that AI labs are “gambling with our lives” — kicked off a news cycle about whether AI could lead to the end of humanity. Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and xAI’s Elon Musk eventually agreed that coordinating a slowdown of AI development would be in everyone’s best interest.
But just as we all were pricing out our AI…
