A personal letter on transformative AI

George Rosenfeld
Published on May 25, 2026 5:48 PM GMT I've spent the last couple of years working on AI risk at Coefficient Giving, but it’s only in the last few months that I’ve started to feel more viscerally that transformative AI is likely to happen and potentially very soon. To be honest, it probably took me longer than it should have. This shift has been a really difficult emotional experience and I've been struggling at times. I imagine others reading this Forum might relate, I’m sorry if so. Last month,