NY Mag: What would you do if your employer could destroy the world?
newyorkmagazine · reddit · 2026-10-05
New York Magazine's Intelligencer publishes a long-form piece on AI researchers who quit OpenAI and Anthropic, exploring why they left over concerns about their employers' safety trajectories and how the professional-ethical dilemma of "working for a company that could destroy the world" is spreading inside the AI industry.
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