AI researchers back an extinction warning as the Pentagon rejects it
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Existential risk is now a live fault line between frontier labs and parts of the national security establishment. If you’re building with advanced models, assume policy, procurement, and public narratives will be pulled between ‘catastrophic risk’ and ‘strategic asset’ for the next few years.
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