Ex-Anthropic Employee Warns AI ‘Could Kill Us All by the End of the Decade,’ Prompting Agreement From Current Staffers
"They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," AI researcher Jacob Coxon writes of Anthropic and OpenAI The post Ex-Anthropic Employee Warns AI ‘Could Kill Us All by the End of the Decade,’ Prompting Agreement From Current Staffers appeared first on TheWrap .
Several current and former Anthropic employees have warned of the dangers posed by the company's rapidly evolving AI models. Jacob Coxon, a former AI researcher, stated that leaders at both Anthropic and OpenAI are not doing enough to address the serious risks involved. Coxon expressed the belief that AI could kill all humans by the end of the decade.
He warned that the companies are racing towards self-improving superintelligence, gambling with humanity's future. Neither Anthropic nor OpenAI seems fully aware of the civilizational stakes, despite acknowledging the danger privately. Current Anthropic science lead Evan Hubinger and Scalable Oversight lead Samuel Marks also confirmed the risks, with Hubinger estimating a 10% chance of human extinction within the next decade.
They emphasize the importance of prioritizing safety research to reduce the probability of these catastrophic outcomes.
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