Joachim Hagopian, More Insiders’ Dire Warnings: AI May Cause Human Extinction

Joachim Hagopian Two weeks after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei posts a 19,000-word essay titled “The Adolescence of Technology,” explicitly warning of AI dangers “as a serious civilizational challenge,” his own head of safety Mrinank Sharma resigned, on February 9th posting his cryptic resignation letter on X: The world is in peril, and not just from AI or bioweapons, but from a whole series of interconnected crisis unfolding in this very moment. We appear to be approaching a threshold where our wisdom must grow in equal measure to our capacity to affect the world, lest we face the consequences.…