AI Isn't the Next Internet. It's the Next Neanderthal Moment

Maini, on Google DeepMind’s strategy and communications team from 2018 to 2022, argues that the right analogy for AI is not electricity or the internet but Homo sapiens outcompeting Neanderthals, and that AGI is “a starting line, not a finish line”. He reads out his own post recalling that, when he joined, researchers were PR-trained to deflect questions about extinction until months of advocacy changed the policy. He cites Dario Amodei’s three levers for keeping a lead over China, stressing security against weight theft. He left for personal rather than protest reasons, and says he feels hope.