We've been warned!-----We May Only Get One Chance To Stop AI - by Quoth the Raven

A departing Anthropic researcher warns that the race to build self-improving AI could leave humanity with no way to regain control. - Quoth the Raven

• Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon is leaving the AI industry because he believes the race to build self-improving systems is moving faster than the industry’s ability to control them...

In an age where everything from 

• warfare to Wall Street, 
• power grids to payment systems, 
• air traffic control to hospital networks, and the 
• software that keeps our food, fuel and communications moving

is digital, losing control of the systems that operate that infrastructure is not some abstract science-fiction problem.

It is a potentially civilization-scale problem...