"When I first joined Google DeepMind, external communication about the possibility of human extinction was not permitted, by anyone.

If asked about existential risk, researchers were PR trained to respond along the lines of: "It's not useful to engage in that kind of alarmism."

"The gap between the internal reality and external communications is closing because the evidence is harder to dismiss now. Not because it's a PR stunt or political psy-op.

The truth is being said out loud because RSI is now so imminent that no other option makes sense."