Anthropic might be one of the biggest companies in the world of AI, but it is no stranger to raising the flag on the risks of the industry. Previously, Anthropic’s CEO has warned of the risk of job losses, and the company’s research team has shown AI’s love of blackmail when pushed into a corner. Now, the team has a new concern.

Jack Clark, the co-founder of Anthropic, posted a lengthy essay where he, in his own words, “grapples with how I feel about the continued steady march towards powerful AI systems”.

In this essay, Clark describes the fear he experienced as a child after the lights went out at night, and he would look around his room at the shapes in the darkness, experiencing the fear of potential creatures he did not understand that wanted to harm him. When he turned the light ba

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