<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 9, 2026, 5:10 AM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div></div></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Anthropic urges AI labs to pause development, warns humans risk losing control<br>
By Aditya Soni     June 5, 2026<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ha!  Will even Anthropic pause?  It's a sucker's bet; anyone who pauses will just slip behind anyone who doesn't.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I am well aware of that prediction of, "If the single leader pauses while everyone else catches up, the result will be aligned with humanity, but if it doesn't, the result won't be."  That prediction makes several erroneous assumptions, such as that there are is a single leader.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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