Anthropic researcher on 10% extinction risk: 'we're not awful people, we want to do good'
_aidan_clark_ · x · 2026-09-09
Anthropic researcher Aidan Clark responds to critics of frontier labs: you'd have to think we're awful people to justify why working on AI is okay despite seeing roughly 10% odds of killing all humanity. A rare insider statement on p(doom) and the ethics of continuing frontier AI work.
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