An artificial intelligence researcher for California-based Anthropic who quit this week offered ill portents that the company and its competitors are “locked in a race” to perfect the technology, even though they “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Other prominent individuals in the field have also offered forebodings, including the British-Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “Godfather of AI” who left Google in 2023 over concerns about the technology’s rapid advancement. In an X thread that’s piled up over 153 million views as...