A frontier AI company should shut down (opens in new tab)

Cross-posted from . Prior discussion: (2025); (2025) by Joshua Clymer A frontier AI company (any one, I don't care which) should close shop and make an announcement along the lines of: Powerful AI could end the human race. We are too worried that we don't know how to make this technology safe. We have decided to shut down because we don't want to be responsible for building the thing that kills us all. A common refrain among safety-conscious AI developers: "it doesn't matter if we stop buildi...