This former OpenAI researcher thinks we should be gaming out the AI apocalypse

An image of small plastic colored flags and miniature tanks, as might be used in a war strategy board game, arrayed on top of a map with a pair of blue dice in the background. (Credit: Getty Images)

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This week, I spoke with Steven Adler, a former OpenAI safety researcher who left the company in January after four years, saying on X after his departure that he was “pretty terrified by the pace of AI development.” Since then, he’s been working as an independent researcher and “trying to improve public understanding of what the AI future might look like and how to make it go better.”