Reporting and perspectives from Zvi Mowshowitz. Headlines and excerpts link to the original articles.
Following Jacob Coxon's resignation and a preference cascade, mainstream media covered AI risk, with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei pledging embedded investigators and OpenAI and Google collaborating on safety. Public estimates that AI might kill everyone doubled from about 15% to 30%, while politicians called for regulations and hearings. President Trump conflated existential risk with opposition to data centers, and hit jobs targeted METR and Effective Altruism.
Zvi Mowshowitz reports that President Donald Trump publicly labeled warnings about AI existential risk a "hoax," comparing them to past claims he has dismissed. The post recounts Trump's statements, his phone call at the All-In Summit, and reactions from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and others.
Anthropic published a report on Claude misuse it disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven harm areas, including fraudulent distillation by Chinese labs such as DeepSeek, Moonshot and Xiaomi. Separately, Trump explicitly called AI existential risk a "hoax."
Dario Amodei published a new essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," proposing three measures to slow the rate at which AI capabilities increase. Anthropic unilaterally committed to the first proposal, embedded evaluators, and OpenAI followed, with Elon Musk and Demis Hassabis endorsing the overall proposal.