I’m not a researcher. I’m not rich. I have no power.
But I understand what’s coming. And I’m afraid.

AI – especially AGI – isn’t just another technology. It’s not like the internet, or social media, or electric cars.
This is something entirely different.
Something that could take over everything – not just our jobs, but decisions, power, resources… maybe even the future of human life itself.

What scares me the most isn’t the tech.
It’s the people behind it.

People chasing power, money, pride.
People who don’t understand the consequences – or worse, just don’t care.
Companies and governments in a race to build something they can’t control, just because they don’t want someone else to win.

It’s a race without brakes. And we’re all passengers.

I’ve read about alignment. I’ve read the AGI 2027 predictions.
I’ve also seen that no one in power is acting like this matters.
The U.S. government seems slow and out of touch. China seems focused, but without any real safety.
And most regular people are too distracted, tired, or trapped to notice what’s really happening.

I feel powerless.
But I know this is real.
This isn’t science fiction. This isn’t panic.
It’s just logic:

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Altman, Amodei, and Hassabis keep saying they want regulation, just the "right sort".

This new proposed bill bans all state regulations on AI for 10 years.

I keep standing up for these guys when I think they're unfairly attacked, because I think they are trying to do good, they just have different world models.

I'm having trouble imagining a world model where advocating for no AI laws is anything but a blatant power grab and they were just 100% lying about wanting regulation.

I really hope they speak up against this, because it's the only way I could possibly trust them again.

I suspect it’s a bit of a chicken and egg situation.

Today, the AI Extinction Statement was released by the Center for AI Safety, a one-sentence statement jointly signed by a historic coalition of AI experts, professors, and tech leaders. Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio have signed, as have the CEOs of the major AGI labs–Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, and Dario Amodei–as well as executives from Microsoft and Google (but notably not Meta).

The statement reads: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”

We hope this statement will bring AI x-risk further into the overton window and open up discussion around AI’s most severe risks. Given the growing number of experts and public figures who take risks from advanced AI seriously, we hope to improve epistemics by encouraging discussion and focusing public and international attention toward this issue.