Anthropic researcher: "I'd burn my equity for a 1% higher chance we make it out alive"
Just-Grocery-2229 · reddit · 2026-09-12
A screenshot circulating on Reddit quotes an Anthropic researcher: "I would burn my equity to the ground for a 1% higher chance we make it out of this situation alive. I promise you, we are actually just fing scared" — a candid expression of existential-risk anxiety from inside a frontier AI lab.
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