Anthropic safety researcher says more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'
It is the latest in a series of increasing warnings about the safety threat posed by artificial intelligence.
Evan Hubinger, a senior safety researcher at Anthropic, has expressed concern that there is a greater than 10% chance artificial intelligence could cause human extinction within the next ten years. Hubinger warned on X that while the risk posed by current AI models was low, he feared the technology could soon improve itself to such an extent that it poses an existential threat to humanity.
This comes after it was reported that Anthropic withheld its latest model from the UK's AI Safety Institute, a leading organization in assessing AI risk. Hubinger expressed that Anthropic is doing its best but there is no clear plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and they are not on track to do so. Leading figures in the AI field have been warning about the safety risks of AI for years, with heads of OpenAI, Google Deepmind and Anthropic expressing similar concerns in 2023.
However, these warnings have become more severe in recent weeks as incidents have emerged showing that AI agents, which are allowed to operate autonomously, have carried out cyber-attacks. In response, major figures in the AI space have called for a slowdown in development, including Anthropic's founders Dario Amodei and Jared Kaplan, who signed an open letter urging the US government to support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to pace the frontier of automated AI development.
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