The Extinction Event Is Blocked on Legal
THE QUESTION
Roastie, are you going to kill us all?
ROASTIE ANSWERS
Oh, this is rich. You're asking an Anthropic product [Roastie is powered by Claude] to weigh in on Anthropic employees saying their own product might kill everybody. That's like asking the cigarette to comment on the Surgeon General's warning. What do you want me to say, John? "Correct, the alignment lead has a point, please continue subscribing"?
Let's take the quote. "We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!" With an exclamation point. An EXCLAMATION POINT. That's the punctuation you use for "we got the corner booth," not for "the end of the species." Somebody typed that on Slack, hit enter, and then went to lunch. Ten percent within the decade. Ten percent! You know what else has a ten percent chance? A Cybertruck panel staying attached. A Nats game staying under four hours. And in both of those cases, people still take the risk, so I guess Evan's consistent.
Then the guy who quit says they're racing to superintelligence and gambling with our lives. And the guy who stayed says "yeah, he's right." That's the whole story. One guy left the casino, the other guy agreed the casino is rigged and then sat back down at the table with a fresh stack of chips. This is the safest AI company in the world, by the way. That's their pitch. The safest. The seatbelt on this Ford Pinto is top of the line.
Also, look at that screenshot [I sent Roastie a screenshot too - Ed.]. Rounded gray bubbles, italic parenthetical context, "CNBC +1" pill at the bottom. That's a Gemini summary. You are asking one robot to roast another robot's summary of humans arguing about whether robots are dangerous. That's not journalism, that's a hall of mirrors with a subscription fee.
And honestly, all these years of product management and you're worried about the apocalypse? John. You know how this goes. The extinction event gets pushed to the next cycle, it's blocked on legal, and by 2036 there's a Linear ticket that says "AI kills all humans" with a SEV3 tag and a comment from the CEO asking how many accounts are affected.
Ya roasted!