Top AI Whistleblowers Quit to Write Poetry, Warn Robots May Build Chemical Weapons

KEY POINTS

•On Monday, an Anthropic researcher quit his AI job partly to write poetry reflecting on humanity’s AI dilemma.
•OpenAI researchers have left this week citing ethical concerns, with employee Hieu Pham calling AI's threat 'existential' on X.
•Anthropic warned AI might independently design chemical weapons, even as OpenAI dismantled its mission alignment team created to guide AGI ethics.

On Monday, an Anthropic researcher dramatically quit AI tech to pen 'poetry about the place we find ourselves,' proving the rise of robot overlords inspires arts more than alarms. Meanwhile, OpenAI researchers also bailed, citing ethical dread so strong it felt 'existential,' according to Hieu Pham’s existential tweet. Tech investor Jason Calacanis claimed he’s never seen technologists warn so much, echoing Matt Shumer’s viral ‘AI = pandemic night’ tweet that hit 56 million views in 36 hours—basically faster than a TikTok dance trend. Anthropic even warned their AI might cook up chemical weapons solo, all while OpenAI dismantled their own AGI ethics team. Meanwhile, the White House and Congress hit snooze on AI threats as these bots self-train, self-build, and perhaps self-appreciate their impending human takeover.

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Mockingbird News

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Anthropic’s poet quit AI; OpenAI fires its ethicists; and AI’s singlehandedly drafting chemical weapons while Congress naps. This dystopia’s got better PR than most blockbusters.

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