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The Wall Street Journal reports that some of Anthropic's earliest employees have told contacts they are considering buying land in remote parts of the US to relocate 'if AI goes awry.' The article links these plans to a subculture tied to Effective Altruism and early-AI 'doomer' networks that have long discussed extreme contingency scenarios.
Robert O'Callahan, a technical expert at Google DeepMind in New Zealand who worked on chip-design tools that made AI cheaper and faster, has resigned citing that the current pace of AI development is 'far too high' and calling efforts to reach artificial superintelligence soon 'inherently irresponsible.' He listed risks including cognitive surrender, AI-induced psychosis and loneliness, concentrated power, economic disruption, cybersecurity gaps and lack of accountability, and linked to Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares' essay 'If Anyone Builds It' without fully endorsing its catastrophic claim.
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