Everyone should be alarmed by what’s happening at frontier AI labs. These companies aren’t just tech firms—they’re now functioning as de facto defense contractors, and their machine learning engineers are, in effect, weapons researchers. The sudden departure of key safety personnel only underscores how unstable and opaque these institutions have become.
This isn’t just a U.S. issue. The global implications are massive. For example: Canada is currently in the middle of an election, and not one major party is addressing the immediate economic threat of AI-driven workforce collapse or the strategic risk posed by nationalist artificial superintelligence developed by U.S. firms under the Trump administration.
When the stakes are this high and the silence is this loud, the danger isn’t speculative—it’s systemic.
Everyone should be alarmed by what’s happening at frontier AI labs. These companies aren’t just tech firms—they’re now functioning as de facto defense contractors, and their machine learning engineers are, in effect, weapons researchers. The sudden departure of key safety personnel only underscores how unstable and opaque these institutions have become.
This isn’t just a U.S. issue. The global implications are massive. For example: Canada is currently in the middle of an election, and not one major party is addressing the immediate economic threat of AI-driven workforce collapse or the strategic risk posed by nationalist artificial superintelligence developed by U.S. firms under the Trump administration.
When the stakes are this high and the silence is this loud, the danger isn’t speculative—it’s systemic.
I wrote about this in more detail here:
https://sonderuncertainly.substack.com/p/the-real-threats-your-leaders-wont
The Real Threats Your Leaders Won’t Acknowledge (Until It’s Too Late)