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Why a decade of doomsday warnings failed to slow the AI race
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Read full postWarnings about AI posing existential risks have been voiced for over a decade, including by Stephen Hawking in 2014. Despite these, AI development accelerated, culminating recently in Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's resignation over fears of a reckless race to superintelligent AI. Industry leaders have since called for slowing AI progress to address serious risks.
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