Not all AI workers think the tech could kill everyone
In text exchanges and conversations, multiple people who have worked for leading companies are sceptical of the warnings.
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"People have been talking about this idea for many years now, so people in AI companies didn't just wake up last week thinking 'Oh no, AI is going to kill everyone.'"
— Rishub Jain , Other
"LLMs [large language models] won't wipe out humanity because they just don't have that dog in them."
— Colin Fraser , Other
Key People
A data scientist at Meta who commented on AI risks on social media.
Elon Musk is the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla.
An AI researcher who previously worked at Anthropic and OpenAI.
Founder of the AI safety research firm Sampura Research and former DeepMind employee.
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In text exchanges and conversations, multiple people who have worked for leading companies are sceptical of the warnings.
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