🧠 Anthropic’s CEO Drops a Chilling 25% “Doom Chance”
Dario Amodei, who cofounded Anthropic, tossed out a number that made folks squirm in their chairs: he thinks there’s about a one-in-four shot that AI ends really badly. Not just buggy systems or messy layoffs - but society-level fallout. He even has a shorthand for it, the infamous “p(doom).” When it comes from someone in the trenches actually building this stuff, that hits differently.
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⚙️ AMD’s Lisa Su: “We’re Barely in Year Two of a Decade-Long AI Surge”
While some leaders go heavy on the warnings, AMD’s CEO Lisa Su is firmly in booster mode. Her take: AI’s growth wave is only just starting, maybe a ten-year ride ahead. Translation? Chip demand is about to hit overdrive. She also waved off the idea of Washington cutting off chip sales to China, saying that’s the wrong move.
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🌍 WTO Says AI Could Reshape Global Trade
According to the World Trade Organization, AI might push global trade up by as much as 37% come 2040. Sounds enormous, right? The catch: if policies aren’t handled well, the spoils could pile up in wealthy countries while others get left behind. Even so, they’re talking about a 12–13% boost in GDP worldwide, which is hardly a rounding error.
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🇨🇳 China Tells Its Tech Giants: Stop Buying Nvidia
Word is Beijing told big players like ByteDance and Alibaba to cancel orders and stop testing Nvidia’s latest AI gear. Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang hinted this isn’t just about silicon - it’s about U.S.–China trade drama playing out on the semiconductor stage. The chip at the center of the storm? The RTX Pro 6000D, one of their heavyweight models.
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👥 Poll: Americans Think AI Chips Away at Human Skills
A new Elon University survey shows over half of U.S. adults believe AI will weaken key human abilities by 2035. Not exactly warm fuzzies for the tech. On another front, researchers at Northeastern are building a tool to map “AI unemployment risk” - basically measuring how replaceable certain skills might be. Helpful? Sure. Comforting? Not so much.
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