Willem Middelkoop Tweets

RT @TaylorPopielarz: A collection of alarming comments made *in the last four days* by seven different people who are inside the AI world ⬇️ Jacob Coxon, former AI researcher at Anthropic and OpenAI: "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” https://t.co/5Z9uJKShTN Samuel Marks, Scalable Oversight lead at Anthropic: "AI developers believe their technology could cause human extinction (or similarly bad outcomes). This could happen in the next few years.” https://t.co/0r11ta1JJR Evan Hubinger, Alignment Science lead at Anthropic: "Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!” https://t.co/RJ0oOKTmG6 Alex Turner, former Research Scientist at Google DeepMind: "I left Google DeepMind in June. Jacob is right: many researchers believe they are building something that could kill everyone on the planet. It was literally my day job to think about how to stop that." https://t.co/oShamWC3o2 Jakub Pachocki, Chief Scientist at OpenAI: "This is a time that calls for extreme caution. I am concerned no one is prepared for the consequences of a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence.” https://t.co/TLpzxwHYBl Jason Wolfe, Researcher at OpenAI: "I don't know what my probabilities are on literal extinction, but I think there are a number of ways AI could go poorly for humanity, and at the current frankly terrifying pace humanity will be quite lucky if we manage to find and stay on the narrow path between all the bad outcomes.” https://t.co/HaqDHDz6Fi Jonathan Richard Schwarz, former Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind: "I left DeepMind after 7 years (and since rejected offers to join the other two) due to severe concerns about the concentration of power these labs represent. What is currently happening in this field is deeply unhealthy for society.” https://t.co/WD5U958Yuy (I made this unimpressive screenshot montage but linked to their thoughts in full above) I left DeepMind after 7 years (and since rejected offers to join the other two) due to severe concerns about the concentration of power these labs represent. What is currently happening in this field is deeply unhealthy for society. - Jonathan Richard Schwarz original tweet by wmiddelkoop:

‘We’re spending like drunken sailors’ https://t.co/o0jIlR3X1c original tweet by wmiddelkoop:

RT @jackprandelli: 🇪🇺Europe is walking into winter with half empty tanks EU gas storage sat at 65% full on August 31 against a 5 year average of 82%. 🇩🇪Germany is at 53% versus a normal 81%. 🇳🇱The Netherlands, home of the TTF benchmark, is at 47%. 🇮🇹Italy is the only major market close to normal at 83%. This is the number that explains everything else in European gas right now. The 21 dollar TTF price, the 8x gap to Henry Hub, the fight with Asia for every spare cargo. It is the arithmetic of a continent that missed its refill season because Qatar's LNG got stuck behind Hormuz and prices were too high to buy aggressively through the summer. Germany is the one to watch. It is Europe's largest storage system and its largest consumer, and 53% in September means it needs to inject at a record pace through October to reach anything like a safe level. If it cannot, the outcome is decided by the weather. A mild winter and this is a footnote. A cold one and Berlin is back to rationing conversations by January. Source:Bloomberg https://t.co/y73Dy98RhV original tweet by wmiddelkoop:

RT @jsblokland: Bessent learned an important lesson today. Once you show markets that you are willing to adjust policy when they move against you, they will ALWAYS demand more. The U.S. Treasury had already announced at least a doubling of longer-maturity bond buybacks. Today, Bessent tripled the size of operation "Treasury Twist" to $6 billion. What did bond yields do? They went UP. original tweet by wmiddelkoop:

RT @mining: Morgan Stanley now sees copper mine supply flat to slightly lower in 2026, which would make it the first year of falling mine output since 2017. The bank entered the year expecting supply to grow. World mine production fell 1.1% in the first half, the International Copper Study Group said last month. Chile fell 6.6%, Indonesian concentrate output dropped 32% with Grasberg still constrained, and the DRC's fell 34% after seismic damage at Kamoa-Kakula. COMEX copper settled at a record $6.8235 a pound on Sept. 8 and is up about 22% in 2026. original tweet by wmiddelkoop:

RT @nxthompson: A remarkable piece from @shustry on Taiwan, where confidence in America is so shaken the country may preemptively surrender to China rather than risk all-out war. https://t.co/Tw77LlH8vq https://t.co/Ub5yFImUAZ original tweet by wmiddelkoop:

RT @business: Trump has floated a $5,000 dividend payment to every US adult citizen if Republicans win the midterms. The measure, as described by the president, would cost well in excess of $1 trillion. Read more: https://t.co/oVabYOUIrN 📷️: Al Drago/Bloomberg https://t.co/IUj0SibRxr original tweet by wmiddelkoop:

RT @JenniferJJacobs: News: Multiple American military aircraft suffered damage in strikes overnight on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, sources told @JimLaPorta and me. One A-10 Thunderbolt, known as the Warthog, was struck and left with a missing wing. Roughly eight F-15s sustained light damage and were placed back into service. American forces in Jordan launched more than 30 Patriots missiles defending against the Iranian strikes. The overnight damage came after the US attacked five Iranian tankers in retaliation for Iran targeting a U.S. Navy warship. In response, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed they launched attacks at eight tankers and two warships, including the base in Jordan. @cbsnews https://t.co/MGvOagtTTO original tweet by wmiddelkoop:

RT @thenewarea51: AIR FORCE ONE emergency escape slide accidentally deployed at Andrews AFB today on the new VC-25B Bridge just before POTUS boards. The slide was quickly removed. This is not the first time this has happened with AIR FORCE ONE. In July 1994 a slide was accidentally deployed as Bill Clinton returned from Berlin. original tweet by wmiddelkoop:

RT @josh_wingrove: Unclear what’s happening, but Trump has been sitting in Marine One on the tarmac at Andrews for some time now, and it looks like an inflatable slide has been deployed on the nearby plane (the Qatari one) he would otherwise have boarded, per @jeffmason1. https://t.co/ZpZWhTHVM9 original tweet by wmiddelkoop: