Ex-UK AISI comms officer goes independent and questions why AI companies don't act on their own warnings
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-10-09
Liron shares an interview with Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse, who went from worrying ChatGPT might take her writing job to worrying AI could kill everyone, and was among the first to articulate the "missing mood": believing the technology might destroy humanity should change how you live.
- After a year as Digital Communications Officer at the UK AI Security Institute (AISI), she is independent again and free to speak openly
- Core topic: why AI companies still aren't communicating as if they believe their own catastrophic warnings
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