Over the past 48 hours, we appear to have been subjected to some kind of collective shock therapy. Several researchers involved with frontier AI labs have publicly said that the labs are racing toward self-improving superintelligence, and are gambling with our lives, and in fact civilisation. They were backed by several AI safety people. One put the chance of AI killing everyone within the next decade above 10%. How would that even happen? It rests on "may or may not".