Zvi: Jacob Coxon's Extinction Warning Triggers a Preference Cascade in AI Labs
TheZvi · x · 2026-09-11
TheZvi publishes a long analysis of why employees and CEOs at OpenAI, Anthropic and other major labs are increasingly warning — against their own interests — that the superintelligence they plan to build within years could kill everyone, cause mass unemployment, cyberattacks and surveillance. He argues a series of events over two months, including internal observations of progress, has triggered a preference cascade, with OpenAI's warnings especially loud.
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