‘Existential threat’: OpenAI engineer warns of the day AI finally ‘disrupts everything’ for humans

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The post quickly gained traction, drawing a conversation around AI and its drawbacks. “Every major tech shift felt existential at first – from the printing press to the internet. AI will replace tasks, not purpose. Humans adapt. We always have,” a user wrote.

“Whatever we want. Our value to society will no longer be based on how much money we can make for the landed class (or modern equivalent thereof), but something new and potentially beautiful we get to define,” another user commented. “hobbies. people dont have time for hobbies these days. or at least most people feel that way i believe. i think curiosity will be something people need to relearn again,” a third user reacted.

Recently, Anthropic’s AI safety lead, Mrinank Sharma, submitted his resignation. “I continuously find myself reckoning with our situation. The world is in peril. And not just from AI, or bioweapons, but from a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment. We appear to be approaching a threshold where our wisdom must grow in equal measure to our capacity to affect the world, lest we face the consequences,” Sharma wrote in his post.