If we do not slow down, we will face catastrophic consequences in the immediate future.
I don’t normally tweet about this, but I sincerely believe this is the most important and serious problem of our time.
This is not a joke
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
As much as I love these videos, I think these kinds of experiments may be unethical and we shouldn’t do them as a precaution.
We also have no way to know if we (or you the reader) are on the receiving end of a scaled up version of this right now