Thread Compiles a Decade of AI Doom Warnings: Musk 2014, Dario 2017, Sam 2015
IgorKurganov · x · 2026-09-13
User IgorKurganov compiled a list of original sources for AI leaders' past risk warnings:
- Elon Musk, 2014 (Live Science: AI is humanity's "biggest existential threat")
- Dario Amodei, 2017
- Sam Altman, 2015
- Shane Legg, 2011
- Ilya Sutskever, 2017
The list is meant to show these warnings mostly predate the companies they later founded, rebutting claims that the warnings are commercially motivated.
Related event: Decade-Old AI Warning Roundtable with Musk, Hassabis Resurfaces(3 posts)→
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