Matt Shumer: The People Building AI Are Scared — We Still Have a Chance to Get This Right
mattshumer_ · x · 2026-09-10
HyperWrite CEO Matt Shumer published a long essay on existential AI risk. He opens with a plane analogy (10% crash odds), revisits his February essay 'Something Big is Happening' (100M+ reads) which compared the moment to February 2020, and admits he was too conservative — AI progressed faster than even he projected. This essay, he says, is about whether humanity stays in control of the AI systems it's building, opening with an incident involving Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon.
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