Ex-OpenAI Insider WARNS: "We're Not Ready For This'"

A former OpenAI researcher who walked away from $2 million rather than stay silent was asked a simple question: if this button would permanently shut down every data center currently training a frontier AI model, would you press it?

He reached for it. Then he stopped.

Daniel Kokotajlo, one of the world's leading AI forecasters and author of "AI 2027," explains why he almost pressed the button and why he ultimately didn't. He says civilization is not ready for what these companies are building. It is not ready to have companies automate themselves, get smarter, and then hand control to a superintelligence. But permanently shutting it down would also mean losing the only thing he believes can prevent human civilisation from eventually destroying itself through nuclear war, pandemics, or some other catastrophe within the next century or two.

Discover:

• Why he almost pressed the button to shut down all AI development forever

• The reason he ultimately didn't and why he feels "very torn" about it

• Why he told his wife they should stop having children because of AI

• What ordinary people can actually do before it's too late

• Why the core problem is that the public isn't taking this seriously yet

• How he thinks people should vote and what to ask political candidates

• His closing message about why science fiction keeps becoming reality

• Why he says "if I thought it was too late, I wouldn't be here. I'd be with my family"

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