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DM Dewayne Moore On For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast

“If you say you're worried what you're making is going to kill everybody, like everybody, and you're serious, there's no excuse to keep doing it in my mind. I don't care if, well, if we don't, then they'll do it. Okay. So just stop. Stop and go fly to the other companies doing it and spend all your time convincing them to stop, you know, if you're serious. I think that's a cop out.”

For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast · AI Research & Frontier Labs · October 2026

“If you say you're worried what you're making is going to kill everybody, like everybody, and you're serious, there's no excuse to keep doing it in my mind. I don't care if, well, if we don't, then they'll do it. Okay. So just stop. Stop and go fly to the other companies doing it and spend all your time convincing them to stop, you know, if you're serious. I think that's a cop out.” — Dewayne Moore, For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast

Context

Dewayne, a machinist who came to AI risk about six weeks earlier through the book 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies', is reacting to a podcast guest who called the AI race 'Moloch'. He rejects the 'if we don't, someone else will' defense used by AI company leaders.

Transcript

For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast Around 06:58 into the episode
Dewayne Moore

…goal is to not be sued if you want to be successful and continue gaining power and wealth. Even I know that. Like, so that really struck me that how open and upfront they were about that kind of stuff about how dangerous it potentially was. And made me think maybe they are like sincerely scared.

John Sherman

Yeah.

Dewayne Moore

And I think it's total bullshit. They say, oh, we can't stop because I was listening to a podcast where they had Max Tegmark on. Yeah.

John Sherman

He's great.

Dewayne Moore

Yeah, he's awesome. And he was calling it Moloch, which I'd never heard that word. I guess. I was like, you can call it whatever you want. I mean, it's greed. It's pretty, it's an old, simple word. It's greed. If you say you're worried what you're making is going to kill everybody, like everybody…

John Sherman

It's like there's no such thing as leadership in this world. Like, right. Like, you know, be the example, be model the behavior you want to see and maybe you'll change the world. Like, how hard is this? That's it. That's what's always worked. Like this helplessness. I can't stop myself from this…

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