AI insiders are sounding the alarm

Top AI experts at OpenAI, Anthropic, and other companies warn of rising dangers of their technology, with some quitting in protest or going public with grave concerns. Leading AI models, including Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT, are getting a lot better, a lot faster, and even building new products themselves. That excites AI optimists—and scares the hell out of several people tasked with policing their safety for society. Anthropic recently published a report showing that, while low risk, AI can be used in heinous crimes, including the creation of chemical weapons. This so-called "sabotage report" looked at the risks of AI without human intervention, purely on its own. At the same time, OpenAI dismantled its mission alignment team, which was created to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity, Platformer author Casey Newton recently reported.