I decided to hit the pavement at Salesforce’s gigantic Dreamforce conference to ask tech-minded people about AI’s catastrophic risk. Turns out, it’s not all AI gloom and doom — that’s only if you’re looking online.
Last week, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced he was resigning from the company, saying that AI labs are “gambling with our lives.” Debates about an AI-led apocalypse proliferated across the internet, and the leaders of Anthropic and OpenAI posted at length about new safety measures.
Around two-thirds of Americans now think there’s at least a moderate chance that AI will destroy humanity, a Politico poll taken this week…
