Some of the most extreme AI risk views reached the masses

Nathan Lambert says it was not known in advance which views of AI risk a growing group taking AI safety more seriously would latch onto. He says some of the most extreme views—moderate probabilities of mass extinction—were the ones that reached the masses.

Nathan Lambert·Publicado 10 sept 2026

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One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire

Extracto original

We have seen that some of the most extreme views of risk, i.e. moderate probabilities of mass extinction, were the ones that reached the masses.

Contexto

As AI became more powerful, it was inevitable that a different, growing group would start to take AI safety more seriously – what we did not know ahead of time, is which set of views they latched onto. A lot in the AI world is about to change due to this.

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