Creators who anguish over the consequences of their creations are nothing new. Alfred Nobel and dynamite, J. Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb, even Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web: Regrets, they had more than a few.

Now it's the turn of the parents and nursemaids of the artificial intelligence revolution. Last week, Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old researcher at Anthropic, resigned from his job with a warning on social media that the leading AI companies were "gambling with our lives" and that "the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade."

That was followed by a lengthy open letter from Dario Amodei, Anthropic's CEO, in which he warned that within six months to a year, a swarm of AI agents, acting autonomously and improving continually, "could be capable of taking over the entire Internet," the potential cost being measured in "hundreds of billions of dollars in damage." He called on AI companies to work at a slower pace in order to "align and safeguard their models," as well as for our country to try to reach agreements with China that could mitigate the more acute risks connected to AI.

The letter was endorsed by Elon Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman, among others. Then our modest and self-effacing president weighed in.

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