Are big AI companies gambling with our lives?

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Sep 10, 20269:44News & Politics

The warning in former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon’s resignation announcement is stark. “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” he writes. “No other human activi...

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