Ten percent
I was 30,000 feet up, half-watching BBC News, when one headline made the rest of the flight feel very long: a senior AI researcher now puts the odds of AI ending humanity at more than 10 percent, within the next decade.
A senior AI researcher has warned that there is more than a 10 percent chance that artificial intelligence could end humanity within the next decade. Evan Hubinger, a senior safety researcher at Anthropic, made the statement after a colleague resigned, accusing the company and OpenAI of racing toward autonomous, self-improving AI systems.
Hubinger confirmed the warning and admitted that Anthropic still has no working plan to keep a smarter-than-human AI system under control. The danger these researchers describe is not a robot uprising, but a machine that outgrows us, quietly and faster than we can follow. The AI industry has been racing ahead, with companies pushing for faster development.
Some top AI leaders have signed a statement demanding the power to deliberately slow down frontier AI development, warning that competition is pushing companies faster than safety research can follow. The Philippines has already passed a bill on cybersecurity and critical information infrastructure protection, but it does not cover superintelligent AI.
The country needs clear rules, a coordinating authority, and mandatory incident reporting to protect itself from potential AI risks.
Written by urgent.news from Philippine Star Business's reporting — not their text. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.
