David Wallace-Wells
In fact, all of the leading AI companies outside of DeepMind were founded because of safety concerns—they exist only because their founders worried that others in the field weren’t worried enough.
Derek Thompson
I think this a compelling argument that lots of smart people make and believe and I think it is just flatly wrong. 1. Anthropic — an AI lab that broke away from OpenAI bc of AI safety concerns many years ago — did suddenly not decide that AI safety was important, like, three