Why a decade of doomsday warnings failed to slow the AI race

Despite over a decade of warnings from prominent scientists and tech leaders, including Stephen Hawking in 2014 and recent resignations from AI companies like Anthropic, about risks that advanced AI could pose to humanity, these concerns have not slowed down the development and public release of AI systems like ChatGPT. The article suggests that despite widespread alarm about potential existential threats from superintelligent AI (AI systems smarter than humans across most domains), the AI industry continues to pursue rapid development.