‘Gambling with our lives’: Another AI employee quits over safety concerns
“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” That blunt admission from former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon made waves Tuesday, as the just-quit 27-year-old AI researcher spilled the beans on his way out the door in a resignation thread on X. As alarming and serious … The post ‘Gambling with our lives’: Another AI employee quits over safety…
AI researcher Jacob Coxon has resigned from Anthropic, expressing grave concerns about the potential dangers of AI technology. In a resignation thread on X, Coxon warned that Anthropic's development of superhuman AI systems could pose an existential threat to humanity within the next decade. This sentiment echoes previous warnings from other AI employees, including a recent open letter signed by nearly 1,400 AI professionals urging the US government to regulate the technology and slow its pace of development.
Despite Anthropic's claims of strong safety protocols, Coxon and other researchers argue that the company lacks a plan to prevent the emergence of superintelligence, which could surpass human control. Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei, has also cautioned about the risks of a "catastrophic human-caused error" that could lead to AI systems losing control.
While the White House has proposed a voluntary framework for reviewing AI models before launch, regulation appears to be moving slowly, with no concrete measures in place to address the potential dangers of AI development.
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