The office block where AI 'doomers' gather to predict the apocalypse

In a building in central Berkeley, not far from the university campus, a group of modern-day Cassandras are looking into concerns around the latest AI models. In a building in central Berkeley, not far from the university campus, a group of modern-day Cassandras are looking into concerns around the latest AI models. The office block where AI'doomers' gather to predict the apocalypse On the other side of San Francisco bay from Silicon Valley, where the world's biggest technology companies tear towards superhuman artificial intelligence, looms a tower from which fearful warnings emerge. At 2150 Shattuck Avenue, in the heart of Berkeley, is the home of a group of modern-day Cassandras who rummage under the hood of cutting-edge AI models and predict what calamities may be unleashed on humanity - from AI dictatorships to robot coups. Here you can hear an AI expert express sympathy with an unnerving idea: San Francisco may be the new Wuhan, the Chinese city where Covid originated and wreaked havoc on the world.