Another article in The Atlantic today explicitly mentions the existential risk of AI and currently sits as the 9th most popular article on the website.
A particular interesting figure from the article (unrelated to Overton Window):
In 2022, amid a tech-led stockmarket crunch, the big five poured $223bn into research and development (R&D), up from $109bn in 2019 (see chart 1). That was on top of $161bn in capital expenditure, a figure that had also doubled in three years. All told, this was equivalent to 26% of their combined annual revenues last year, up from 16% in 2015.
Another article in The Atlantic today explicitly mentions the existential risk of AI and currently sits as the 9th most popular article on the website.
On the front-page of the NY Times today (and this week):
In addition, there is a front-page article on The Economist website today about AI accelerationism among the big tech firms.
A particular interesting figure from the article (unrelated to Overton Window):