Jacob Coxon's resignation from Anthropic sparked a viral debate about AI extinction fears, with former employees and current AI lab workers discussing the potential risks of artificial intelligence. The recent surge in doomsday rhetoric has surprised many, but warnings about AI's existential threat have been present in Silicon Valley for years. As far back as 2015, Sam Altman, now CEO of OpenAI, described superintelligence as the greatest threat to human civilization. The question remains why these concerns are only now gaining widespread attention.
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