Even her hairdresser asked about the resignation over AI doomsday fears
RosieCampbell · x · 2026-09-17
AI researcher Rosie Campbell shared that her hairdresser asked whether she'd heard about 'the guy resigning because he thought AI might kill us all,' prompting her to explain the Hugging Face incident. A sign that the AI-safety resignation story has broken out of the tech bubble into everyday conversation.
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