Ah, I see I was confused - I was thinking of what are now called “AI doomers”, although when I knew them they were called “rationalists”. Everything OpenAI and Anthropic say about rogue AIs, even the terms “alignment”, “AI safety”, “AGI”, they are all cribbed wholesale from what these people were worrying and writing about over the prior two decades. But for most people, they have only heard CEOs of AI companies say this kind of stuff, so that’s who they are thinking of.

I agree completely that the companies are complicit and should have expected exactly this to happen.