AI-pocalypse now? Anthropic gearheads sound alarm over advances
An Anthropic researcher resigned with a warning that AI development is racing toward potentially catastrophic outcomes by 2030. Colleagues at the firm have corroborated these concerns, admitting that a clear path to AI alignment remains elusive.
Why it matters
The internal admission of existential risk by leading AI researchers highlights the growing ethical and safety crisis within the artificial intelligence industry.
TOI correspondent from Washington: A researcher at the Artificial Intelligence firm Anthropic quit his job on Tuesday with a grim warning over the rapid progress in the field which he fears could kill humanity as soon as 2030.“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt.” Coxon, who is himself among those building AI, wrote on X while announcing his resignation, igniting a firestorm of alarming -- and some frivolous -- responses.A researcher who has spent the past three years working on AI pretraining at OpenAI and Anthropic, he accused both firms of “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,” arguing that increasingly capable systems could hack computer systems, conduct scientific research, acquire resources and eventually become sufficiently autonomous that humans lose control.Coxon’s prognosis could have been dismissed as the bitter farewell…
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