I decided to hit the pavement at Salesforce’s gigantic Dreamforce conference to ask tech-minded people about AI’s catastrophic risk. Turns out, it’s not all AI gloom and doom — that’s only if you’re looking online. Last week, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced he was resigning from the company, saying that AI labs are “gambling with
One question is dominating the tech world after an Anthropic researcher’s resignation this week: Could artificial intelligence kill us all? Jacob Coxon, who previously worked at OpenAI, said in an X post on Tuesday announcing his resignation from Anthropic that the “people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end
Internal power struggles, factionalism, insistence that power rotates through the regions and disciplinary measures have all added to the sense of disillusionment within the party. The PDP has been robbed of high-profile figures and talent, including the loss of former Vice-President Atiku Aubakar last year. The crisis was intensified by a debilitating leadership tussle. In
There is also a belief that greater regulation alone will achieve little. Too much conservation work currently relies on philanthropists’ cash and devoted volunteers, those in the sector say, and much more languishes on the to-do list due to a lack of money. The federal government directly spends about A$700m on nature protection, a fraction
Meta’s latest ad begins with a black-and-white shot of an eye, showing us what someone sees as they read countless panicked headlines about how AI will take our jobs, isolate us, and cause a global crisis. “Some people will have you believe that AI will make us feel less connected. That it will leave us
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