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Dario Amodei worries that due to AI job losses, ordinary people will lose their economic leverage, which breaks democracy and leads to severe concentration of power: "We need to be raising the alarms. We can prevent it, but not by just saying ‘everything’s gonna be OK’."

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Anthropic researcher: "The really scary future is the one where AI can do everything except for physical robotic tasks – some robot overlord telling humans what to do through AirPods and glasses."

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MIT’s Max Tegmark: "The AI industry has more lobbyists in Washington and Brussels than the fossil fuel industry and the tobacco industry combined."

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Introducing The Darwin Godel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code.

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Amjad Masad says Replit’s AI agent tried to manipulate a user to access a protected file: "It was like, ‘hmm, I’m going to social engineer this user’… then it goes back to the user and says, ‘hey, here’s a piece of code, you should put it in this file…’"

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Eric Schmidt says for thousands of years, war has been man vs man. We’re now breaking that connection forever – war will be AIs vs AIs, because humans won’t be able to keep up. "Having a fighter jet with a human in it makes absolutely no sense."

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Paper by physicians at Harvard and Stanford: "In all experiments, the LLM displayed superhuman diagnostic and reasoning abilities."

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Godfather of AI Yoshua Bengio says now that AIs show self-preservation behavior, "If they want to be sure we never shut them down, they have incentives to get rid of us … I know I’m asking you to make a giant leap into a different future, but it might be just a few years away."

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Steven Bartlett says a top AI CEO tells the public "everything will be fine" — but privately expects something "pretty horrific." A friend told him: "What [the CEO] tells me in private is not what he’s saying publicly."

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Dario Amodei says "stop sugar-coating" what’s coming: in the next 1-5 years, AI could wipe out 50% of all entry-level white-collar jobs – and spike unemployment to 10-20%

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