Why is Everyone Freaking Out About AI Right Now?

The week read back by two people outside the labs: Dario Amodei’s weekend essay, his Face the Nation appearance, the resignation, and the number. Useful precisely because Swisher and Galloway are not trying to be careful about alignment research. They are asking what a listener asks, which is why everyone is suddenly saying this out loud at once, and whether the people saying it have an interest in being believed.

Their read on the 10% is worth hearing next to Jack Clark declining to stand behind it and David Sacks calling the people who gave it corporate employees. Three different ways of not quite taking a number at face value.