After a decade of failed bills and three years of resignations, Washington finally discovers it cares about AI safety

For the past decade, numerous attempts to pass legislation regarding artificial intelligence safety have failed. In the past three years alone, five insiders left major AI companies, warning of the potential dangers of creating systems that surpass human intelligence, without offering any viable solutions. This week, however, an Anthropic employee named Evan Hubinger went public with his concerns, citing a lack of concrete plans to control superintelligent systems.

Hubinger even went as far as to state that he believes there is a greater than 10% chance of human extinction within the next decade. This raised the alarm, prompting a political reaction after a decade of inaction.