Breaking an Anthropic NDA to cut x-risk by 0.1% is worth 80M lives, argues researcher — ethics fight erupts
timcolbourn · x · 2026-11-15
Tim Colbourn argues on X that whistleblowing past an Anthropic NDA is justified if it cuts extinction risk by even 0.1% — 80 million expected lives — since litigation would come long after RSI. AI safety researcher David Manheim counters that honoring commitments is a deontological constraint not overridden by consequences, and even consequentialists are better off in a world where commitments hold.
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