Connor Leahy says he has heard senior AI-sector figures express fatalism about extinction risk

What was said

"I have talked to people including very high up people at this companies that say stuff like, "Well, yeah, there's a chance it'll kill all of us, but you know, I was going to die anyways, so might as well see if it works out, right?""

Guest Connor Leahy claims he has spoken with “very high up” people at AI companies who, he says, were willing to accept a chance of catastrophic outcomes on the grounds that they would “die anyways”. He characterises these views as morally unacceptable and as part of a broader transhumanist belief system he says is present in parts of the AI industry.