AXIOS (Zachary Basu) - AI's extinction debate breaks containment
An online panic erupted this week after millions discovered that leading AI researchers routinely debate and calculate the risk of human extinction. - Taken at face value, the odds are chilling: 10%, 20%, sometimes far higher, assigned to the possibility of AI catastrophe. Why it matters: An esoteric debate over "p(doom) " has suddenly become a gut-level question for lawmakers, investors and millions of ordinary people: Why are we racing toward a technology its own builders believe could destroy us? Driving the news: A resignation post by Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic researcher who previously worked at OpenAI, has drawn over 110 million views on X after he accused frontier labs of "gambling with our lives." - The warning became vastly…