Why are AI employees willing to gamble with our lives? Many AI employees hold a misanthropic belief: a cosmos of blissful AIs is worth riski…

Why are AI employees willing to gamble with our lives? Many AI employees hold a misanthropic belief: a cosmos of blissful AIs is worth risking human extinction. Utilitarians shouldn't decide the fate of AI: https://ai-frontiers.org/articles/suicidal-compassion-how-utilitarianism-at-ai-companies-endangers-humanity I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

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Source: Dan Hendrycks (X) | 2026-09-09

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