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Everyone remembers Icarus. Nobody talks about Daedalus. The point of…

Everyone remembers Icarus. Nobody talks about Daedalus. The point of that story isn't the sun. It's that the person who built the wings also begged him not to fly too high. Daedalus was the creator and the warning, both at once. And the flying felt too good to listen. Jacob Coxon left Anthropic and said AI has the ability to kill all of us. That's the part I can't stop turning over. Here's where I land. The people building this stuff are the ones warning us loudest, and that should carry more weight than it does. Engineers. Researchers. Alignment leads. From OpenAI and Anthropic both, all singing the same song. Even Elon Musk puts the odds of AI killing all of humanity at around 10%. When the people closest to the technology are the loudest voices saying slow down, that is worth pausing on. When the builders want to pump the brakes and the people in charge want to go faster, you're supposed to listen to the builders. But the US president was asked directly whether he was concerned about AI causing human extinction. His answer was no. His concern is beating China. So the people inside the labs are scared and saying so out loud. The one person who could actually do something about it has decided winning the race matters more than what happens if we get it wrong. We built the wings. We know they might melt. We're still climbing. So I'll ask it plainly: if the people building the most powerful technology in human history are telling you it could kill us all, and the people in charge are saying full speed ahead anyway, who do you trust? And what does your answer say about where this ends?