AI researcher: one lifetime spans ENIAC to a government pause of Claude Fable
AndyMasley · x · 2026-09-04
AI researcher Andy Masley argues society is radically underreacting to AI risk: there is "nothing fundamentally magical" about the human brain, so machines replicating it pose genuinely unique risks. His framing: one person could have lived to see both the first ENIAC general-purpose computer and the government telling Anthropic to temporarily shut down Claude Fable over cybersecurity — projecting 80 years forward suggests many more such risks from generative intelligence.
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