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AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry

2 points| timoth | 19 days ago |bbc.co.uk

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Bender|19 days ago

An AI safety researcher has quit US firm Anthropic with a cryptic warning that the "world is in peril".

I deciphered that as, "The thinking machines are already broken and if I call that out I will be cancelled by all that big money behind the thinking machines so I will do something else." Many people did something similar by self censoring during the Great Cancellations.

insin|19 days ago

Gardening leave payouts as hype generators? In an IPO year? Shurely not