It's the Apocalypse; It Must be Thursday
" I believe that if we don't slow down at the current rate of progress, there is a strong chance that we could all die in the immediate future. " This was the attention-grabbing quote at the beginning of the top story on the BBC News website this morning (the 13th of September) and I guess there's nothing like an imminent apocalypse to really drive that web traffic. (" Really to drive " that web traffic; I beg your pardon. There's nothing worse than splitting an infinitive in the middle of an Apocalypse .) The doomsayer on this occasion was Jacob Coxon, a recently departed employee of Anthropic AI, who has been spending the last week or so doing the media circuit, detailing his specific vision of impending Ragnarök to anyone who will stand still long enough to listen. And people have definitely been listening. Tales of AI "extinction events" have been dominating the major news outlets all weekend. British politicians are calling for new laws t...