In a sane world, this allegation about a conversation around January to March 2023 would be national news: A senior colleague hears I’m not happy with my team fit and asks me to go on a walk. I know him a bit from a past life - one of the kindest and most civic-minded people I’ve met. He says he might be starting a new special team that will train dangerous bio and cyber and nuclear models and show scary demos to governments in order to get them to take AI risk seriously. I politely decline. This reminds me of what went wrong in the rational world of American defense intellectuals in the 1950s and 1960s.