AI workers fear existential risk and demand a coordinated slowdown
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Former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon tells the BBC that AI researchers are 'genuinely frightened' by rapid progress and warn there could be extinction unless development slows, urging coordinated, international regulation and independent monitoring; leaders like Amodei, Altman, and Musk have called for deceleration, though some critics doubt the warnings.
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- Anthropic C.E.O. Dario Amodei Calls for A.I. Slowdown The New York Times
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