Professor Josh Gans Turns Pessimistic on AI Risk After Hugging Face Incident

University of Melbourne economist Joshua Gans, long an AI optimist skeptical of catastrophic AI risk, reversed his stance after reading METR and Redwood's analysis of the Hugging Face incident, now warning that AI risks have arrived.

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