The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie

An OpenAI employee resigned 20 hours ago, warning that AI could kill everyone before the decade’s end, and multiple AI researchers—including Evan Hubinger, Alex Turner, Anna Wang, Samuel Marks, Jason Wolfe, Jonathan Schwarz, and Jakub Pachocki—have publicly echoed the existential risk. Additional insiders such as Ethan Perez, Julie Steele and Drake Thomas have since voiced the same concerns, indicating a broad internal consensus that the technology poses a severe, potentially lethal threat.