Maybe There’s More Than Meets The Eye In AI’s “Oppenheimer Moment”?

John Battelle
5 min readMay 31, 2023
Scary shit!

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Well that was something. Yesterday the Center for AI Safety, which didn’t exist last year, released a powerful 22-word statement that sent the world’s journalists into a predictable paroxysm of hand-wringing:

“Mitigating the risk of extinction from A.I. should be a global

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John Battelle

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