Thoughts on AI
Along with immense opportunity, AI brings equally immense challenges and risks. This page matches my focus on the latter two topics, which in my opinion require far greater urgency. Many AI researchers and executives are also sounding the alarms, in some cases quitting their lucrative jobs to help spread the word about unfortunately very real threats to not just job losses and deepening inequality, but to the near-term existence of humanity at all.
Key Points
- Some top AI CEOs and researchers believe there is a 25% or greater chance that AI could cause human extinction in the not-distant future.
- Recent hacks performed by AI agents provide proof that AI can and will take actions entirely "of their own volition" which could cause "extreme havoc".
- AI need not become "evil" or "conscious" to cause a very bad outcome for humanity. "Too bad for the ants."
- A near-term "intelligence explosion", where AIs are able to continuously improve themselves without human intervention, would, some researchers argue, quickly put AIs so far ahead of humanity that human control of them soon becomes distinctly impossible.
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Resources
Strongly recommended
- Bill Gates (26 Aug 2026) — The turbulent AI era is here
- Will Marshall for The Economist (15 Jun 2026) — Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion
- Yudkowsky, Soares (2025) — If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
Other recent releases
- Dario Amodei (12 Sep 2026) — We Must Pace the Frontier
- Pacing The Frontier (Jul 2026)