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

Jack Neel · AI Insider's WARNING: “1,200 AI’s Just Broke Out!” The Biggest Incident in History | Connor Leahy · September 7, 2026
Connor Leahy says he has heard senior AI-sector figures express fatalism about extinction risk
Jack Neel
Jack Neel
AI Insider's WARNING: “1,200 AI’s Just Broke Out!” The Biggest Incident in History | Connor Leahy
"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.
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AI Insider's WARNING: “1,200 AI’s Just Broke Out!” The Biggest Incident in History | Connor Leahy

September 8, 2026 · 1h 51m · 5 Egleze moments
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