{
  "id": 6393454,
  "title": "Anthropic researcher says AI has more than 10% chance of 'killing all humans' after colleague quits",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/anthropic-researcher-says-ai-has-more-than-10-chance-of-killing-all-6393454",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-09T07:06:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CNBC World",
    "slug": "cnbc-world",
    "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/09/anthropic-researcher-quits-ai-safety.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.\n\nAccording 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.\"\n\nCoxon 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.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 11,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Economic Times Tech",
        "title": "Anthropic researcher quits, says AI firms 'gambling with our lives'",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/anthropic-researcher-quits-says-ai-firms-gambling-with-our-lives",
        "published": "2026-09-09T03:59:47.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Business Insider",
        "title": "An Anthropic researcher just quit, saying OpenAI and Anthropic are 'gambling with our lives'",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/an-anthropic-researcher-just-quit-saying-openai-and-anthropic-are",
        "published": "2026-09-09T04:31:37.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Dawn",
        "title": "Anthropic researcher resigns, says AI labs are ‘gambling with our lives’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/anthropic-researcher-resigns-says-ai-labs-are-gambling-with-our-lives",
        "published": "2026-09-09T05:29:37.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "CNBC Technology",
        "title": "Anthropic researcher says AI has more than 10% chance of 'killing all humans' after colleague quits",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/anthropic-researcher-says-ai-has-more-than-10-chance-of-killing-all",
        "published": "2026-09-09T07:06:42.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Politico EU",
        "title": "‘Gambling with our lives’: AI researcher quits Anthropic with dire warning about safety",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/gambling-with-our-lives-ai-researcher-quits-anthropic-with-dire",
        "published": "2026-09-09T07:44:32.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Nairametrics",
        "title": "Anthropic researcher quits, warns AI labs are ‘gambling with our lives’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/anthropic-researcher-quits-warns-ai-labs-are-gambling-with-our-lives",
        "published": "2026-09-09T09:23:50.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Tom's Hardware",
        "title": "More than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans' in the next 10 years, Anthropic safety researcher says — departing employee says AI companies are 'gambling with our lives'",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/more-than-10-chance-ai-could-kill-all-humans-in-the-next-10-years",
        "published": "2026-09-09T09:26:28.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Financial Times",
        "title": "Anthropic researcher quits over AI labs ‘gambling with our lives’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/anthropic-researcher-quits-over-ai-labs-gambling-with-our-lives",
        "published": "2026-09-09T09:31:37.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Axios",
        "title": "Anthropic insiders warn AI could kill all humans",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/anthropic-insiders-warn-ai-could-kill-all-humans",
        "published": "2026-09-09T10:04:58.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Hindu - Sci-Tech",
        "title": "AI researcher quits Anthropic, says frontier AI labs “gambling with our lives”",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/ai-researcher-quits-anthropic-says-frontier-ai-labs-gambling-with-our",
        "published": "2026-09-09T10:23:56.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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