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What If Machines Get the Power to Decide for Us

The essay follows a wave of high-profile AI safety warnings - Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to "pace the frontier," the resignation of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon over what he called a reckless race toward self-improving AI and colleague Evan Hubinger's public estimate of a greater than 10 per cent probability of AI-caused human extinction within a decade. The essay uses these events as a doorway into a larger…