My interview for a senior policy role at a major lab a few years ago told me that they did not understand what was about to happen. The backlash was obvious even then. You can’t tell people that the good outcome of your thing is the loss of millions of jobs and an outsourcing of creativity, and the bad outcome is human extinction. The frontier labs are happy to warn us that they are building something so amazing and so smart that it could threaten humanity. Let’s set aside the obvious financial motivation for saying that and take them at their word. If they want us to take them seriously, then they need to take their responsibility seriously too. Stop building with inadequate controls, stop using the failures of those controls to promote the intelligence of your model, stop calling for a regulatory moat, and tell us what you’re actually prepared to stop doing. https://logicalintelligence.com/blog/llms-won%E2%80%99t-kill-us-but-they-will-destabilize-the-global-economy-if-frontier-labs-refuse-to-be-honest-with-themselves-and-the-general-public