Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told the UN that if “managed poorly,” AI models “could be a risk to humanity as a whole.” | John Lamparski/Bloomberg via Getty Images Silicon Valley has long warned that its favorite technology might get us all killed. But chatter about AI’s apocalyptic potential has grown louder in recent weeks. In September, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from the company, accusing his former employer of “gambling with our lives” by developing evermore powerful models faster than it could control them. One of Coxon’s former colleagues vouched for this assessment...