CNN's Wolf Blitzer leveled his inquisitive gaze at me and asked the biggest question in tech, “Is AI an existential threat to humanity?" I smiled confidently and assured Wolf, "No, I don't think it is."
But just days after that TV interview, we have, it seems, ample evidence that one of the industry's leaders and core AI developers, Anthropic, perhaps thinks otherwise, and is now urging not just caution, but a slowdown.