The danger of AI is not that it will become conscious and hate us, but that it will become competent and ignore us."
—Eliezer Yudkowsky
OpenAI has proposed global technical standards for frontier AI and recursive self-improvement, covering common safeguards, capability and risk assessments, incident reporting and human oversight of automated AI research.
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon has resigned over concerns that AI companies are racing toward self-improving superintelligence without adequate safeguards. Anthropic alignment lead Evan Hubinger backed Coxon’s warning that AI could kill all humans and said he personally puts the risk above 10% within the next decade.
In a Senate address on 23 July, Bernie Sanders compared artificial intelligence to the extinction-level comet in Don’t Look Up, warning that elected representatives are not paying attention and that the consequences for workers could be catastrophic.
