“AI will kill us?”
“Come on. ChatGPT can’t even…”
OK. Let’s play a game.
“AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies.”
Sam Altman, 2015A few months later he co-founded OpenAI.
“There’s a 25% chance that things go really, really badly.”
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, 2025.They make Claude, one of ChatGPT’s biggest rivals.
You wouldn’t get on a plane with those odds.
It’s still dumb, right?
2024
Two years ago it couldn’t count the r’s in strawberry. (There are three.)
2026
This summer, an AI cracked a math problem people had been stuck on since…
The year World War II started.
Mathematicians are still working out how it found the answer.
receipt ↗biology.
The AI companies are going all in:
Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments
Because AI might cure diseases we never could.
Guy with a Harvard PhD made a new schizophrenia drug in his garage. ChatGPT designed it. Literally.
Douglas Yao@DouglasYaoDY · Sep 8, 2026 ↗
“This vial contains a new drug… It was designed by ChatGPT, and I synthesized it in a chemistry lab I built in my garage.”
Trying to build a bioweapon.
Same week, for real:
Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons
Scientists used Claude, Anthropic’s AI, for virus research and hid what it was for.
One was on a state-funded grant at a military institute.
Or a bioweapon.
Nobody knows.And one of those only has to happen once.
“It’s going to be fine. We’ll always have something to stop them. We’ll have a little gear. Boom. ‘I really don’t like that robot.’”
Donald Trump, 2026.Asked what the plan is if AI turns on us.
That’s us.
Mine:
It goes on your card.
Okay, maybe a little.
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receipts
- Amodei, 25% (Axios)
- Hinton, 10–20% (Forbes)
- Altman, 2015
- Trump, “a little gear” (CNN)
- Hubinger, >10% (X)
- “more than 10%” (CNBC)
- Coxon quits Anthropic (TIME)
- ELIZA, 1966
- The 1939 math problem
- The garage drug (Yao, X)
- Bioweapons attempts (NYT)
- Anthropic’s lab (TechCrunch)
- “Permanent underclass”
- Statement on AI Risk, 2023
