{"id":345877,"date":"2026-09-13T22:28:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T22:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345877\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T22:28:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T22:28:21","slug":"as-fears-of-a-i-catastrophe-magnify-washington-stirs-but-mostly-slumbers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345877\/","title":{"rendered":"As Fears of A.I. Catastrophe Magnify, Washington Stirs, but Mostly Slumbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

In recent days, Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic engineer who previously worked for OpenAI, resigned in the most public way<\/a>, declaring on social media that the two leading A.I. labs were professing deep concern while still speeding toward \u201csuperhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, released a 3,800-word essay calling for a global slowdown<\/a> of A.I. development, echoing more urgently concerns he had raised in the past. Elon Musk, the billionaire rival in the A.I. race who remains close to President Trump, quickly responded on X: \u201cDario is right.\u201d Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, also chimed in with support.<\/p>\n

Yet in Washington, there has been almost no substantive response. If the 1940s through the 1980s were consumed by finding ways to reduce the risk of a nuclear exchange \u2014 creating new institutions like the Atomic Energy Commission and arms control treaties to govern how the world\u2019s most dangerous technology would be handled \u2014 the approach of the U.S. government so far has been the lightest possible.<\/p>\n

There are many computer scientists, of course, who believe these warnings are overinflated. Mr. Trump himself has been at the forefront of the \u201cwhat-me-worry?\u201d crowd, refusing to engage on how to balance the risks with the possible rewards. On Thursday, asked by a reporter about whether he had \u201cany concerns about A.I. leading to human extinction,\u201d he brushed it off.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I don\u2019t have any,\u201d he said. \u201cI have concerns that if we don\u2019t win A.I., we\u2019re going to be put in a very bad position.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president quickly turned to the answer the White House \u2014 and those who view the calls for slowdowns and regulation as a huge strategic error \u2014 sees as the deciding factor: If the United States falters, China will take its place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In recent days, Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic engineer who previously worked for OpenAI, resigned in the most public…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[60614,66,827,129480,99703,129478,86627,1452,129479,98262,9,24,63,15460,134,136,135,1069,901,1876],"class_list":["post-345877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-anthropic-ai-llc","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-china","tag-coxon","tag-cyberattacks-and-hackers","tag-cybersecurity-and-infrastructure-security-agency","tag-cyberwarfare-and-defense","tag-donald-j","tag-hugging-face-inc","tag-jacob","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-openai-labs","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-politics-and-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}