I think the future of humanity in space will be determined by the answer to a question and that question is what will happen first the first human born in space or the first combat fatality in space and we're working very hard to make sure it's the former you you need to prepare for it to to be the latter.
I am fairly certain they will say yes they need they know how to solve this problem and if if that's the case then that's the problem it's as simple as engineering and and now the alternative is that if They say the alternative which is there is no way to contain our experiments. There's just no way. When we test our AI models, uh it will get out and it will damage the world. Then I think the answer is we have to shut the labs down.
The people closest to the technology for the first time are saying this is really scary. This can get out of control. And the reason I think is that this is not really another technology. I mean if if it seems to do what we are all watching it do. This is almost like an evolutionary moment in human history. We are moving to a we we have figured out a way to make silicon sand think
I was biking to work. It was a sunny autumn day. I was enjoying my bike ride, but I was also thinking about climate change, as you do. And I was thinking how it's kind of a bummer that my life's work on happiness had no bearing whatsoever on what I believe is the most important existential challenge of our time.
Something about this moment feels more existential. Like the very core of who we are as human beings is under threat, challenging the way we think, communicate, connect.
If these open autonomous AI agents can escape from internal networks and then go rogue, attacking we know not where, we're in a really different world.
Anthropic occupies a peculiar position in the AI landscape: a company that genuinely believes it might be building one of the most dangerous technologies in human history, yet presses forward anyway, on the theory that it's better to have safety-focused labs at the frontier than to cede that ground to developers less focused on safety.
Here's a technology that is potentially more dangerous than nuclear weapons. We didn't let Oppenheimer start a company and start selling bombs to China.
