SITUATION EXPLAINED: An Anthropic researcher quit, saying AI could kill us all by the end of the decade. • @hilbertspaess spent three years on pre-training research, first at OpenAI, then at Anthropic since July • "Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives" • "At OpenAI, many have not deeply internalized the civilizational stakes. At Anthropic, the stakes are well-understood, but they are locked in a race to…

hilbertspaess@hilbertspaess23h ago

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.