‘We could lose control’: AI doomsday comments from Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are majorly shaking the internet

For nearly a week, the internet has exploded over the looming threat of an artificial intelligence apocalypse. When former OpenAI and Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon posted that he’d quit the industry after seeing that “neither company is acting responsibly,” he immediately went viral, with his thread now having garnered more than 171 million views. Among Coxon’s claims, his statement that “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade” stood out the most, with other AI workers chiming in to say that, yes, the potential extinction of humanity is a common topic behind the scenes of the AI industry. Now, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei—two of the biggest players in AI (and Coxon’s former bosses)—have weighed in on the discourse. The two tech CEOs have butted heads in the past, but on this, they agree: AI development needs to slow down, or a techno-apocalypse is a very real possibility. Altman’s two paths to doomsday Altman addressed the discourse with two posts on social media. In the first, he explained how though OpenAI has long been focused on the safe deployment of its AI models, it’s now treating development and eval…