Anthropic Researcher Says 10% Chance AI Kills All Humans

An Anthropic researcher resigned publicly saying both his former labs are gambling with our lives, a colleague still there put the odds of extinction above 10%, and the posts pulled nearly 200 million views plus responses from two dozen elected officials. NLW examines why this particular X-risk message landed now when years of similar warnings didn't, pointing to the political turn against AI, the Hugging Face incident, and doom simply performing better in media. Closing on what a more specific and less outrage-driven version of this debate could actually produce.