Against AI Doomerism
National Review
All of a sudden, all the AI mavens are aligned. Sam Altman, head of OpenAI, said this week that his company welcomes “a federal framework that sets consistent safety requirements for frontier AI.” His worry? That the industry might lose “control of the future to AI.” Anthropic’s Dario Amodei agrees. “Left unchecked,” he wrote in a recent essay, AI “could outrun our ability to understand and control these systems.” Even Elon Musk concurs, noting that he has been “sounding the alarm” for years.