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Fortune
Ruth Umoh

AI leaders are warning the race is dangerous. They’re also trying to win it

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sits down with Fortune's editor-in-chief to discuss the high-stakes balancing act of AI. (Credit: Fortune)

A difficult question lurks in the latest warnings from the people building artificial intelligence. When you believe your company may be creating a danger to society, is it your duty to stay and change it, or to leave and sound the alarm?

The question sharpened last week when former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon warned that frontier labs were racing toward self-improving superintelligence and “gambling with our lives.”

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