From The Times and The Sunday Times, this is the story on Sunday.
I'm Manvi Rana.
Something seems to have changed.
People are suddenly waking up to the dangers that AI could be about to unleash on the world.
And in the tech world, there's new concerns over the safety of artificial intelligence,
sapped the head of Anthropics' AI safety, resigned this Monday.
Fears were heightened by two very prominent resignations from within the world of AI this week.
Marinak Sharma writing in a post on X that the world is in peril.
There's also a creeping sense of alarm about what the technology itself might be capable of doing.
If you tell the model it's going to be shut off, it has extreme reactions.
It can blackmail the engineer that's going to shut it off if given the opportunity to do so.
It's ready to kill someone, wasn't it?
I'm not sure if it was Claude or someone else.
And then...
There are the dangers of whether the AI industry might be about to bring the global economy to its knees.
A lot of the things we worry about when we talk about AI's sort of societal dangers kind of pale in comparison to the economic crash that's going to make 2008 look like the best day of your life.
So, what are the real risks of AI?
We spoke to one of the researchers who resigned this week over fears of where the industry is headed.
I just don't think we understand the potential consequences yet for AI.
We have some initial signs that it might not be good.