Overview
- Maher, in a Friday Real Time segment, urged a halt he phrased as “shut the whole thing down” until the risks are understood.
- He targeted Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel and Dario Amodei, calling them “on the spectrum” and “sociopaths” and saying he would not trust them with his data.
- He questioned Anthropic’s restricted rollout of its new Claude Mythos model, which the company describes as built to stop cyberattacks and fix software flaws, noting it is limited to about 40 major firms such as Google, Apple and JPMorgan.
- To underscore the stakes, he cited warnings from Geoffrey Hinton and Elon Musk and claimed AI carries roughly a 20% chance of human extinction.
- He argued AI lacks conscience and pointed to war-game results that choose nuclear options more than humans, as coverage also noted past critics like Scarlett Johansson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt backing a January campaign for tighter limits.