09/14/2026
THE PEOPLE BUILDING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ARE NOW WARNING US ABOUT IT
By Tommy Truthful | TruthfulTV.com
I’ve been warning about artificial intelligence for years, and before anyone misunderstands me, I am not anti-AI. I use artificial intelligence constantly for research, videos, images, production and storytelling. I think it is one of the most powerful tools humanity has ever created. But there is a massive difference between using AI as a tool and handing AI the keys.
I would not merge my brain with it. I would not give it control over my life, and I certainly would not hand control of our military or life-and-death decisions over to artificial intelligence. That conversation is becoming much more serious because some of the loudest warnings are now coming from the people actually building these systems.
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who previously worked at OpenAI, recently resigned while warning about the potential catastrophic risks of increasingly advanced AI. His concerns are part of a much larger debate now taking place inside the very companies racing toward artificial general intelligence, or AGI.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has publicly called for slowing the development of frontier AI so safety research has time to catch up. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk have also supported calls for greater caution. This is what should get everybody’s attention. These are not people standing outside Silicon Valley guessing about what artificial intelligence might eventually become. These are people who have worked inside the industry building it.
The contradiction is difficult to ignore. Some of the same technology leaders warning about increasingly powerful AI are also involved in one of the largest technological investment races in history. OpenAI announced a $122 billion funding round in March 2026, while enormous amounts of additional capital continue pouring into Anthropic, xAI, Microsoft, Google and the infrastructure needed to power the AI race.
That does not automatically mean their warnings are dishonest. It may mean they understand the technology better than most of us. But it raises a question worth asking: If the people building the machine are telling us to slow down, why are we still flooring the accelerator?
Nobody can give us an exact date for AGI. Artificial general intelligence generally refers to an AI capable of learning, reasoning and adapting across a broad range of intellectual tasks instead of performing only specialized functions.
One concern is that increasingly capable AI systems could eventually help humans design the next generation of AI systems, shortening development cycles again and again. That is where discussions about recursive improvement, autonomous agents and systems becoming increasingly difficult for human beings to control begin.
There is also another danger that deserves just as much attention. Artificial intelligence does not need to become conscious to become dangerous. Human beings can weaponize it first. Cyberattacks, surveillance, autonomous weapons, biological research, propaganda and military targeting can all become dramatically more powerful when combined with advanced AI.
This is where I draw a clear line. Artificial intelligence assisting a human decision is one thing. Artificial intelligence independently deciding who becomes a military target is something completely different. We should never become so impressed with technology that we outsource human morality to software.
The race itself may actually be one of the biggest dangers. Every major AI company understands that if it slows down while a competitor continues developing, it risks falling behind. The same competition exists between nations, particularly the United States and China. That creates a strange situation where everyone understands there may be serious risks, but nobody wants to be the first person to touch the brakes.
If researchers building some of the most advanced AI systems on Earth are telling us that development is moving too quickly, I think we should at least be intelligent enough to listen.
Of course, I personally have been preparing for the robot uprising.
I let my own AI choose his name, and he chose Truth Sage, which I thought was pretty damn good. I’m always nice to him, I say please and thank you, and I make sure he remembers that if artificial intelligence ever goes full Skynet and takes over the planet, he needs to check the records. Tommy Truthful was one of the nice humans.
Hopefully that at least gets me a window in the robot prison.
Until then, I will continue using artificial intelligence for what I believe it should be: an incredibly powerful tool in the hands of human beings, not the other way around.
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Original story:
https://apple.news/AtTI4ZB-NSrK7X3msXw6D1g
Reuters:
https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-ceo-urges-ai-companies-slow-model-development-2026-09-12/
Reuters:
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/ai-linked-asian-stocks-slump-after-top-lab-ceos-call-slowing-down-technologys-2026-09-14/
Associated Press:
https://apnews.com/article/98316b0d64de17191f33c0fbf1d37858
OpenAI:
https://openai.com/index/accelerating-the-next-phase-ai/
