I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing.
Accepting this race and entering the “endgame” is a hubristic gamble that should not be launched from a private company’s Slack. Attempting to speedrun alignment should require extraordinary confidence that there are no better trajectories available.
A common response is “if they truly believe this, why are they still building it?” At OpenAI, many have not deeply internalized the civilizational stakes. At Anthropic, the stakes are well-understood, but they are locked in a race to get there first - they believe no one else will act responsibly, so they must do it themselves, despite the risk.
The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.
@pfofocalizando Matheus, Carol esta correta quando fala que a mãe de Marília faz o que quiser, somente ela sabe o que ela passou com a filha dela. Eh um absurdo o que estão fazendo com mãe de Marília.
@tim_cook Mr Cook, I respectfully ask for your intervention and for Apple to immediately replace my iPhone 15 Pro.
After everything that has happened, this is the least I should expect from a company that claims to put its customers first.
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@tim_cook Mr Cook, I respectfully ask for your intervention and for Apple to immediately replace my iPhone 15 Pro.
After everything that has happened, this is the least I should expect from a company that claims to put its customers first.
@tim_cook A battery that swells, emits smoke and destroys a phone should never leave a customer without a device for nearly a month while Apple continues to hold it without providing a fair resolution.
@tim_cook I want my iPhone 15 Pro replaced immediately.
. Apple needs to significantly improve the way it treats customers facing serious product failures and safety concerns.
@tim_cook I want my iPhone 15 Pro replaced immediately.
I do not believe that a company as great and respected as Apple should have the courage to treat a situation like this as though it were nothing. Apple needs to significantly improve the way it treats customers
@tim_cook I am no longer asking for explanations. I am requesting immediate action.
I want my iPhone 15 Pro replaced immediately.
I do not believe that a company as great and respected as Apple should have the courage to treat a situation like this as though it were nothing. Apple needs
@tim_cook I have contacted Apple's Executive Office, spoken with a representative from Executive Relations, and made every effort to resolve this matter privately and in good faith. Unfortunately, I am still without my phone and without a satisfactory outcome.
@tim_cook . I have since been informed that additional components do require replacement, yet Apple continues to retain my phone without providing the replacement that I believe is fully justified.
@tim_cook What makes this situation even more unacceptable is that I was informed by an Apple technician that if additional components beyond the battery required replacement, the device would be replaced. I have since been informed that
@tim_cook Dear @tim_cook,
My phone contains access to my banking, work systems, personal information, authentication tools, transport services and essential communications. Being left without my device for such a prolonged period has caused enormous disruption and stress.