Suicidal Compassion: How Utilitarianism at AI Companies Endangers Humanity

Subtitle: Utilitarians at AI companies imagine a cosmos filled with blissful AIs. They might risk human extinction to achieve it. Dan Hendrycks, Director of the Center for AI Safety — September 9, 2026 For millennia, philosophers have argued over the principles that should guide moral decision-making. Within countries and across the world today, humans continue to hold a huge variety of moral worldviews. However, within AI corporations, employees’ beliefs are far from representative of the wider population. In fact, a large fraction of people involved in AI development subscribe to—or heavily