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Artificial Intelligence Will Conservatives Constrain the Machines? The need for a political response to AI is becoming increasingly urgent. (ALLISON BAILEY/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images) The end of human civilization has gotten a little more thinkable. Last week, a 27-year-old named Jacob Coxon quit his lucrative job at Anthropic, arguably the world’s most important AI lab, because he believed his employer was building something that could “kill us all by the end of the decade.” Remarkably, his concerns were affirmed by former colleagues of his who stayed with the company: Evan Hubinger, who leads Anthropic’s efforts at alignment (that is, ensuring that AI is tethered to the values and aims of mankind) said that Coxon…Open