The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’
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When a former Anthropic researcher describes internal work as a “mini Manhattan project” with only a few years to get safety right, that’s a signal that frontier labs see the risk window as near-term, not hypothetical. Boards using AI only as an efficiency story are underweighting governance and scenario planning.
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