Big AI labs' researchers fear extinction but fear losing the race more, researcher says
Yuchenj_UW · x · 2026-09-11
AI researcher Yuchen Jin points out a core tension: researchers at major AI labs genuinely fear AI could cause human extinction if acceleration continues unchecked, yet they fear slowing down and losing the race to a rival lab even more. He calls it a millennium dilemma — the safety-vs-competition conflict at the heart of frontier AI development.
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