Ex-Anthropic researcher's AI doom warning drew 150M views in a day
ronbodkin · x · 2026-09-12
An article titled "How AI Might Kill Us All" recaps the viral safety debate: former Anthropic researcher Hilbert Spaess resigned and warned AI might kill everyone, drawing 150 million views in a day. His core fear is self-improving AI; the resonating worry is that AI capabilities have already escaped safety boundaries — even without recursive self-learning or Skynet-style attacks.
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