Guardian exposes tight-knit AI doomer circle, Redwood CEO's extinction talk mocked

A Guardian report exposes a tight-knit circle of AI doom predictors including Redwood Research, METR and AI Futures Project. Critics mock their self-comparison to Cassandra and ridicule Redwood CEO Buck Shlegeris's claims that an AI takeover could cause human extinction.

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