Is AI going to run wild and kill us all – or are the concerns lately voiced by the bosses of the AI titans just some kind of convenient business ploy on their part? Those bosses include Dario Amodei of Anthropic, which owns Claude; his rival Sam Altman of OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT and its descendants; and their competitor, SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who owns Grok. The debate has raged around the world for the past few days.
Dividing the world into two kinds of people never works, so we’ll go with three: this issue has divided the world into those who agree that AI may indeed kill us all, those who think Musk et al are out to fool us all, and those in the “don’t know/can’t say” camp. Our analysis leads us to think there ought to be a fourth camp: those who agree that the AI bosses may be trying to fool us all, and also that AI may kill us all. The two are not mutually exclusive.
