Over the last several months, the two leading frontier AI labs have shown some brazen behavior. It started with a series of ​ carefully planned announcements​ and reports from OpenAI that try to establish how unnerving and powerful (not to mention ​felonious​ ) their LLM-powered agent systems have become. They then handed the baton to Anthropic, whose employees began ​publicly debating​ the exact probability that these technologies would lead to human extinction. They delivered this all with an eerie calmness that conveyed a nihilistic inevitability about their work.…