Are the brakes finally being slammed on the artificial intelligence race? Or are we simply witnessing a wake-up call that has come too late? Developers are coming forward in numbers these days to say that the speed and direction of travel of AI, machine learning and the tech reaching the human level of intelligence is threatening human existence. Jacob Coxon, the researcher who quit Anthropic last week, feared that those developing AI systems are “genuinely frightened” for the future of humanity
