The Wall Street Journal has renewed attention on a pre-ChatGPT network of technologists and donors who treated advanced AI as a civilization-scale danger, including ideas as extreme as island refuges and human genetic enhancement. The episode matters because concepts once confined to effective altruism and AI-safety circles now shape the public posture of frontier AI companies, policy campaigns and the backlash against so-called AI doomerism.
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