These are quotes from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google employees, in the wake of Jacob Coxon’s warnings, in which the employees confirm that they think AI might soon kill everyone.
Jacob Coxon Warns of Human Extinction and Triggers a Preference Cascade
CEOs of major AI labs, and employees of major AI labs, including OpenAI and Anthropic, often say they plan to build superintelligence soon, as in within a few years create AIs that are superior to humans at essentially all cognitive tasks.
AI Epistemic Risks: Emerging Mechanisms & Evidence
<p>Advances in artificial intelligence pose risks to humanity's collective capacity to form accurate beliefs, reason well, and maintain a healthy information en
AI agents pose untold risk to humanity. We must act to prevent that future | David Krueger
The pieces are falling into place for autonomous artificial intelligence. We must stop unregulated development
AI Researchers On AI Risk
I first became interested in AI risk back around 2007. At the time, most people’s response to the topic was “Haha, come back when anyone believes this besides random Internet crackpots.…
Ethical AI Departures — Who Quit OpenAI, Google, Anthropic Over Safety Concerns
59 researchers and executives who quit or were fired from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta, and xAI over AI safety concerns. Sourced departures, writings, and prediction tracking.
Behind the AI ‘Extinction’ Power Bid: Soaring Costs Could Hit 10% of World GDP
AI firms are invoking unproven extinction warnings to justify restrictions on developments by their smaller rivals whilst seeking greater influence over regulation
AI May Be Atrophying Our Brains, Professor Warns
AI may soon ruin our ability to make decisions for ourselves — an outcome that would be, one expert warns, "catastrophic."
Who decides when AI is too dangerous?
Anthropic asked for AI regulation, but not like this.
AI #186: The World Takes Notice
In the wake of Jacob Coxon’s resignation, and the resulting preference cascade, things have escalated quickly.
Nathan J Robinson on Twitter / X
the correct take on the AI risks. not "godlike machine that decides to kill us all" but "machine that makes it much easier for humans to kill one another." from the very sensible @timnitGebru in Wired: https://t.co/wM0ucsN2no pic.twitter.com/vtHQ02my0G— Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) September 13, 2026
The AI future where humans get paid to be creative
Good post on the fear mongering from Anthropic and OpenAI: pop.rdi.sh/dario-please/
dario, please! - POP RDI; RET;
pop.rdi.shinteresting to see them citing the meta-crisis and failure to address it as a prime reason for moving on - "our wisdom must grow in equal measure to our capacity to affect the world, lest we face the consequences" raising meta-crisis awareness among AI researchers is a great way to reduce x-risk 👍 >
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another one for the scrapbook @gracekind.net
I do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements" axios.com/2025/04/22/ai-anthropic-virtu…
Exclusive: Anthropic warns fully AI employees are a year away
www.axios.comI do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements" axios.com/2025/04/22/ai-anthropic-virtu…
Exclusive: Anthropic warns fully AI employees are a year away
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