• At least we can all agree who killed the Kennedy Center.
• An artificial intelligence researcher sparked panic when he resigned from Anthropic, claiming that developers are advancing their models too quickly and ignoring the risk of their spiraling out of human control. He’s not the first to voice anxiety. Elon Musk, head of the company SpaceXAI, has estimated a 10 to 20 percent chance that the technology will result in human annihilation. The chief executives of Anthropic and OpenAI have echoed this catastrophism, which they present as cause for sweeping regulation. Industry leaders may be genuinely unnerved by their own creations, and many are now promising to tap the brakes. They might also wish the government would erect barriers to open competition. Imagine if internet companies had been subject to a licensing regime in 2001. AOL might still reign supreme. To the AI incumbents, losing their lead might be even scarier than the end of the world.
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