Inside a Growing Movement Warning AI Could Turn on Humanity

Recently, on an AstroTurf lawn in Berkeley, California, content creators used to making videos about romance novels, climate change and tech tips got advice on covering a more theoretical topic: How to spread the message that rogue artificial intelligence could wipe out humankind.

The gathering was held at a sprawling event space popular with a Bay Area community focused on the possibility that superintelligent AI might lead to human extinction — a cause sometimes dubbed AI safety.

The crowd hooted as Jeffrey Ladish, an affable former security engineer at the AI start-up Anthropic, glided to the stage on inline skates, sporting a muscle tank and mane of golden hair, to join a panel of experts in the art of talking to regular people about AI catastrophe.

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