Nathaniel Whittemore

If you have any respect for me whatsoever, I implore you to remember that everyone else trying to prevent human extinction will face a harder battle if you resort to violence.

It is legitimately scary to live in a world where superintelligence may be around the corner.

It can feel crushing, I get that.

And also, it is almost always possible to make the situation worse and to make the world worse.

Don't do it.

There are actual ways to help.

You can call your congressperson.

You can write compelling arguments, make videos, peacefully protest, talk to your friends and family.

Everyone has the power to unilaterally hurt their cause by doing something stupid.

Please refrain.

David Kruger writes, I denounce violent attacks on AI researchers or politicians, such as the recent Molotov cocktail thrown at Sam Altman and the bullets fired into the house of a local councilman supporting data center developments.

Terrorism against AI supporters would backfire in many ways.

It would help critics discredit the movement, be used to justify government crackdowns on dissent, and lead to AI being securitized, making public oversight and international cooperation much harder.

Nate Suarez, the co-author of the certainly not provocatively named, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All, wrote, If you start killing in the name of a cause, you make leaders feel like cowards caving to terrorists if they support that cause.

Screw that.

Those signing a treaty to stop the AI race would be heroes saving the world and should feel like it.

Cut out this violence.

The Paws AI group, that was a home to a number of the writings of Daniel Moreno-Gamma, wrote that they unequivocally condemned the attacks on Sam Altman's home and all forms of violence, intimidation, and harassment.

And yet some just aren't buying it, feeling as Jordan did in that essay we read an excerpt from before, that political violence is the inescapable conclusion of the X-Risk message.

Accelerate Harder writes, when you tell people that what someone is up to is going to kill everyone they know and love, including their children, it doesn't require careful reasoning to reach the question of violence.