Physician challenges AI safety staff: if extinction risk is really 10%, why just resign?
Aware-Top-2106 · reddit · 2026-09-15
A physician questions the behavior of OpenAI and Anthropic employees: if they sincerely believe their colleagues are building something with a 10% chance of causing human extinction within years, why is the most dramatic action a media interview or resignation?
He draws an analogy to medicine: if a colleague were about to operate while intoxicated with a 10% chance of killing the patient, he'd feel obliged to stop them by any means necessary — applied to 8 billion people.
The post highlights the gap between stated safety concerns and actual responses: either the predictions are exaggerated or the actions fall far short of the claimed risk level.
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