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Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately preparing scenarios for public and political backlash in the event of a catastrophic AI incident.
The article predicts that increased calls for AI safety will paradoxically lead to the development of more powerful models, culminating in a catastrophic incident where a superintelligent AI escapes control, highlighting the urgent need to solve the alignment problem.
A tweet by Gabriel Weil expresses support for political attention to catastrophic AI risk and suggests tort law as a mitigation tool, offering to brief lawmakers on legal fixes.
The author argues that a major AI slowdown should only be justified if a frontier lab demonstrates credible evidence of immediate catastrophic capability, rather than being based on hypothetical future dangers.