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[Shivani Shah @wordsbyshivani]

My life summed up in a single meme.

[U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen @RepPettersen]

This is deeply disturbing, but not the first warning sign.

Last Congress, I sat on a bipartisan AI task force created to make real progress ensuring AI developments prioritize our safety, well-being, and labor force. At the beginning of this Congress, Speaker Johnson unfortunately disregarded the Task Force's recommendations, and disbanded it.

We don’t have time to keep waiting. Congress must start the real work of putting up commonsense guardrails to avoid the worst outcomes these whistleblower are warning us of.

[Amy Gandon @GandonAmy]

Personal plea - as a mother of two very small children, my levels of worry about AI are pretty stratospheric rn.

What can I do to help stop AGI coming into existence? Why is it considered an inevitability? And what should I be doing rn to prepare myself and my family?

[AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ @AISafetyMemes]

ANTHROPIC ALIGNMENT LEAD: 80% (!) chance we are all about to die.

When he said ">10%" he was softpedaling it

Also, when Coxon said we might die "this decade" he meant in the next ~3 YEARS

[David Krueger 🦥 ⏸️ ⏹️ ⏪ @DavidSKrueger]

Regulating AI isn't good enough. We need to *stop* AI. Why not?

We don't know how to control it or tell if it's safe. The techniques we have are not reliable. I know this because I've been researching this stuff for over a decade.

Because of this, any regulation that actually makes us safe already has to do what I'm proposing: an immediate, indefinite, international moratorium on frontier AI development. If it doesn't, then you know it's not good enough.

[Fav @Favwontmiss]

We’re living through the part of the movie where the scientists are sounding the alarm, begging people to pay attention, and everyone keeps pretending nothing is happening.

[Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @RepSaraJacobs]

We don’t have time to wait. The massive threats posed by AI are here and now, and Congress needs to act.

[Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @RepYassAnsari]

Tragically, when I first saw the movie “Don’t Look Up” in 2021, it struck a chord with me. I felt viscerally that humans would find ourselves in a comparable place one day - and soon.

If you haven’t seen the movie, I’d recommend it. A quick recap: Humans were explicitly warned that a comet that could destroy Earth was heading rapidly toward us. And instead of doing anything to stop it, the president, elected leaders and billionaire CEOs just spewed some bullshit about all the “jobs the comet would create.” The media treated the comet as casual entertainment. The public was split and the entire thing gets politicized. The movie ends with nearly all of human life wiped out.

Just about a year ago I had the opportunity to join a bipartisan freshman class breakfast with Sam Altman. I was shocked when he said to us, “in 18 months, I’ll trust artificial superintelligence to run my company better than I can.” I regret I didn’t engage more on this issue immediately.

Now here we are - it’s 2026 and engineers at the world’s leading AI companies are telling us that there is a >10% chance that artificial intelligence could kill all humans. They’re not mincing their words in the slightest. Not because of present day AI capabilities, but because it is evolving so exponentially that we could be in a doomsday scenario in a year. One year.

This is fucking serious. We need to halt new advanced AI development. We need guardrails, transparency and emergency powers. We need more employees at these companies to speak out publicly, loudly and fearlessly until everyone is forced to listen. We need the media to be covering this 24/7 until elected officials are forced to act. We need the Trump Administration to treat this with the urgency it deserves. We need the ability to shut an AI model off if there’s a credible threat to human life. The list goes on - and we don’t even know what the full list entails because this is all happening so fast. That’s why we need urgent, bipartisan public hearings and committees dedicated to developing and enacting solutions expeditiously.

This isn’t partisan. Let’s stop with the bullshit and come together for the sake of our shared humanity. I’m a 34-year-old Democratic Congresswoman, and I’d like to live to see my late 30s. I know my Republican colleagues want the same for themselves and their loved ones.

None of us can afford to be complacent about this any longer.

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[Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker]

It's time to sound the alarm - louder - on reining in Artificial Intelligence.

It's becoming more clear the threat AI poses to humanity, so I'm calling for immediate action from the industry and Washington.

[Alexei Gannon 🌹 - ∃∀ @alexeigannon]

Oh! Oh ok! We should stop building this!

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[Rep. Ted Lieu @RepTedLieu]

We need to pass the AI Kill Switch Act NOW.

[David Krueger 🦥 ⏸️ ⏹️ ⏪ @DavidSKrueger]

I'm so SO sorry to people who are just learning that AI could kill us all, or are just starting to understand it or feel it emotionally.

I want to apologize on behalf of the AI community, which I've been a part of for over a dozen years.

It must be devastating and infuriating to realize that a group of people you probably don't even know have been putting you, your family, and everything you care about at risk so brazenly for so long.

I know I can't speak for everyone, but you deserve an apology from *someone* and I know a lot of AI researchers do increasingly feel remorse, guilt, regret, or at least unease with the situation they've helped create.

It's not OK what my field has done and nothing will ever make it OK. You have every right to be upset, to be furious. I wish we could make it up to you. I hope we will try. I am trying. I will keep trying. I am asking my colleagues to try.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

We’re up to 50% chance ending humanity according to this former Chief Scientist at the UK AI Security Institute and Google DeepMind and OpenAI staffer

[Molly Kinder @Mollykinder]

This a.m., I walked my two youngest kids (ages 7 and 4) to school. I held their little hands as we crossed streets, and gave my youngest a giant hug at his PreK4 classroom door.

Then, after walking a block towards home, I opened this app to a terrifying stream of tweets.

Of course, I have heard about "alignment" and "AI safety" and "x risk" concerns for years. I took these concerns at face value, especially when I heard them directly from folks at the labs working closest with the technology. And I was grateful so many smart people are working on them. And that's about it. (My work focuses on AI's impact on jobs.)

But something has shifted, dramatically, for me in the last few weeks. Between the Hugging Face incident, the damning independent @METR_Evals reports that followed, and the alarming chorus of calls (pleas? shouts? SOS signals?) from inside the labs that we are careening toward potential catastrophe, all of this has made me feel, viscerally, how truly dangerous this moment is.

Clearly I am not alone in this light bulb moment. It is one thing for someone in a tropical climate to try and conceptualize snow. It is another thing entirely to be knee deep in it, frozen down to your toes. Somehow hearing the details of the HF incident felt to me more like trudging through snow than theorizing about a possible blizzard; it really hit home.

Which is why, standing a block from my children's elementary school in Capitol Hill this morning, I felt sick to my stomach reading my phone.

I kept going back to @EvanHub's > 0.1 risk of AI killing us all. TEN PERCENT. *Greater* than ten percent. (To be fair to him, he was clear his worry isn't today's models, but what comes next.)

As a parent, it is extraordinary the lengths I will go to keep my children safe against lethal risks with infinitesimal chances of happening.

Bike to school? My children *must* wear a helmet. A national study found 2 bicycle-related deaths per million children <16 in states with helmet laws, vs 2.5 per million in states without. So: 0.000002. More than half the states passed a law over that.

When I was pregnant, I religiously avoided soft cheese, hyper aware of the risks of listeria, even as @ProfEmilyOster's fabulous books walked me through the actual math. The joint FDA/FSIS risk assessment puts the odds of listeriosis at roughly one in 5 million per serving of soft cheese. 0.0000002.

This morning, as I microwaved oatmeal for my kids' breakfast, I made sure I avoided a plastic bowl, to avoid some future cancer risks or something else we'll discover plastic causes.

As a parent, I will go to extraordinary lengths to keep my kids' safe. Because that is literally my number one job as a parent.

And yet, here I am, outside my kids' school this morning, scrolling through tweet after tweet about the AI arms race, the blistering pace of technological progress, the bee-line for trillion dollar IPOs, and our professed (confessed?) inability to make sure this exceedingly capable technology we are racing to create and unleash into the world won't escape our control and destroy us. Or, more bluntly, kill our children.

To be sure, we are tied in knots trying to resolve the game theory dynamics with China, and there are all sorts of competitive pressures and unresolved tensions. But OBVIOUSLY, we need a proactive plan, with real coordination, effective regulation, and an ability to do what my 11-year-old bluntly stated as the clear solution if we are at risk of serious harm: just turn it off.

We also need to figure out better ways of talking about this with the American public, outside of the AI-pilled Twitterverse.

I just polled my college roommates, sisters, book club, mom friends, none of whom are anywhere close to the AI conversation. Suffice to say, this AI safety conversation has *not* entered the mainstream. Most people I pinged are not following it closely, beyond several listening to @kevinroose on the Daily a few days ago. The newspaper headlines don't speak to them, and they aren't clicking. It seems like a niche AI issue. Others said it all sounded hyperbolic, Y2K all over again.

One friend said bluntly, "people get data centers and jobs. They like to get paid and have water."

Even those who tuned it to the Daily episode found the issue hard to understand, and overwhelming to wrap their heads around. Terms like "superintelligence" and "alignment" are getting lost on people. Several people told me the paper clip example used everyday language people can actually understand. Another friend said she has never seen a clear explanation of *how* AI could kill us all.

Here's my two cents. I think these issues are *exceedingly* important and hugely consequential to literally every person in this country. We need an actual plan, and we need policymakers to step up, asap. Right now, I hear only crickets in DC, where I live.

For that to happen, this needs to be a kitchen table conversation, not just an x debate among AI insiders who speak in technical terms that leave normal people behind. This moment demands brilliant communicators -- journalists, experts, activists, concerned citizens, writers, researchers, filmmakers, creatives-- who can relate this to people in ways they can wrap their heads around, who can connect this to what matters in their lives (ahem, keeping their kids alive!), and who can lay out practical steps that policymakers can do to safeguard humanity.

In other words, this can't just be talked about on @dwarkesh_sp, it needs to be everywhere, from the View to People Magazine.

And it needs to be tackled here, in my town, in Washington, DC. One of the streets I crossed this morning with my kids on the way to school was East Capital. I told my kids to look left, and see if they could spot the capital building.

There were too many trees this morning blocking the view.

[Samuel Ratnam @eterecursion]

For those that don't know, this is the former Chief Scientist at the UK AI Security Institute. Before that, he worked at Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Google Brain.

[Geoffrey Irving @geoffreyirving]

I think we have a ~50% chance of all dying as a result of superintelligence, mostly due to actions in the next few to 10 years. I don't expect to have that resolved to below 10% or above 90% before we either make it through, or we don't.

We will have to act despite uncertainty.