Anthropic researcher says AI has more than 10% chance of 'killing all humans' after colleague quits

An Anthropic safety researcher has stated that there is a greater than 10% chance that AI could kill all humans. This warning comes after a former colleague, Jacob Coxon, quit over safety concerns. Coxon, who had spent three years conducting pretraining research at both Anthropic and OpenAI, announced his resignation on X, expressing concerns that the companies were moving too quickly towards increasingly powerful and potentially uncontrollable AI systems.

According to Coxon, the companies are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." He also claimed that some people in the industry believe that AI could pose an existential threat to humanity within the next several years, with Coxon stating that "the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade."

Coxon also warned that advanced AI systems could have superhuman strength, hack computer systems, transform entire fields almost overnight, and accumulate significant real-world power and resources.

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