“Confusion and disillusion slowly set in. Many people had paid dearly, personally and financially, to come to northern California to solve the alignment problem. They’d devoted years to the mission, often at great opportunity cost to their careers. They’d made the best friends they’d ever had, and then – in an environment where some people believed it was literally impossible to agree to disagree – lost them to bitter intellectual schisms, exhaustion and nervous collapse. They’d sacrificed to be present at the birth of the future, and now discovered that the future was already being born elsewhere”
https://www.theguardian.com/global/ng-interactive/2025/mar/05/zizians-artificial-intelligence