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What execs and politicians are saying about slowing down AI development19m ago The contagion of fear23m ago Trump Attacks Anthropic CEO Over Call to Slow AI Development25m ago AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder says31m ago Reward AI Releases OM-1: A Robot Policy Trained on Human Demonstrations Only, With No Teleoperation or On-Robot Data32m ago AI bots "Timmy," "Ren," and "Jackie" are flooding social media with slop36m ago Why Companies Are Unlikely to Hit Pause on AI37m ago Minebea Mitsumi Pauses M&A to Chase AI, Nvidia Demand for Components41m ago China Rejects AI ‘Fearmongering’ After Amodei Urges Slowdown45m ago Simon Edwards, CEO and Founder of SE Labs – Interview Series50m ago Jensen Huang puts Trump on speakerphone onstage to announce robots won’t take over the world2h ago With iOS 27, I’m actually using Siri again54m ago Sakana AI Researchers Introduce PC-ALM, a Layer-Local Alternative to Backpropagation That Trains 1000-Layer Networks55m ago OpenAI Buys Startup Developing Smartphone Camera57m ago

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The contagion of fear

Simon Willison's WeblogPublished 23 minutes ago

Bryan Cantrill criticizes alarmist claims by some Anthropic researchers that AI could cause human extinction by 2030, urging experts to avoid fearmongering without solid evidence and to responsibly communicate risks.

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Michael Burry says AI leaders' calls for a slowdown are 'self-serving' — and humanity has 'nothing to fear'
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