As my ride pulled up to OpenAI’s headquarters in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood, I checked my phone one more time for news alerts. For days, I—like everyone else in the world—had been transfixed by the surreal succession of AI industry insiders loudly and publicly voicing our darkest fears about the technology. The people building artificial intelligence “earnestly believe” it could kill all humans by the end of the decade, wrote a researcher who had worked at Anthropic and OpenAI, in a resignation letter he posted on X. Anthropic’s head of alignment chimed in and put the odds of human…