Anthropic researcher says more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans"
A lead researcher at Anthropic has stated there is a greater than 10% chance that AI could pose an existential threat to humanity within the next decade. This follows the resignation of a colleague who criticized the industry's rapid, competitive race toward superintelligence.
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The debate over AI safety and the ethics of rapid development is critical as frontier models approach human-level intelligence.
London — A lead researcher at Anthropic, one of the world's leading artificial intelligence firms, said Wednesday that he believes there is a more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans" within the next decade. "We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade," Evan Hubinger, the San Francisco-based company's Alignment Science Lead, said in a post on X. "I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to."Superintelligence is the still-theoretical notion of an AI agent that is smarter than even the sharpest human minds.Hubinger issued his dramatic post following the resignation of a colleague, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, on Tuesday."I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic.
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