Journalist: Lab 'doomers' are easy to find, almost impossible to get on record
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-22
CoffeebreakYT notes that while the common retort is "doomers are just saying this for hype," their problem is the opposite: researchers inside labs like Anthropic and OpenAI who genuinely believe AI could be catastrophic are easy to find, but getting them to speak on the record is extraordinarily difficult. They are publicly seeking such interviewees.
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