Tech workers prepping for AI apocalypse: working out, economic crash

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Tech workers prepping for AI apocalypse: working out, economic crash
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Henry, a boyish-looking AI researcher, believes there's about a 50/50 chance that in the next few years AI will become so powerful and sophisticated it will pose an existential threat to all human life. For his day job, he's trying to prevent this from happening by working for a small safety-focused AI research lab in the Bay Area.

Elmore, the executive director of anti-AI protest group Pause AI, believed steadfast mass organization against the big labs like OpenAI was the only viable way forward, which she says her ex-husband, Ronny Fernandez, was 'unsupportive' of. 'We had a lot of problems and I should have probably never been in that marriage, but it just became very clear that I wasn't going to be able to keep doing Pause AI if we stayed together,' she says.

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