UCF Professor Discusses Former Anthropic Employee's Warning that AI Will 'Kill Us All'
Jacob Coxon quit after warning that AI could kill humans by the end of the decade, while Anthropic’s safety lead put the risk above 10%.
- On Tuesday, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned, warning that tech giants are "gambling with our lives" by racing toward superintelligent AI that could threaten humanity by the end of the decade.
- Coxon stated Anthropic and its rival OpenAI are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence," prioritizing speed over safety while ignoring risks that could jeopardize human life within the next ten years.
- Anthropic Alignment Science Lead Evan Hubinger and AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton estimated a greater than 10% probability that advanced AI could cause human extinction within the next decade, calling the prospect "not unreasonable."
- Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker issued a warning on social media calling for immediate action from Washington, while Sen. Bernie Sanders announced plans to introduce legislation to pause AI development and ban superintelligence.
- Anthropic reported blocking malicious model activity, though critics dismiss the safety warnings as a distraction, while the company claims it continues to "prioritize safety over speed when the two are in tension.
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Among the most famous sayings of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the fourth caliph, is: “If you are in retreat and death is advancing, how swift the meeting must be.” I recalled this wise saying amid the clamor that accompanied the words of Jacob Coxon, the British researcher who resigned from the artificial intelligence company Anthropic — words I do not think he exaggerated. Coxon is anxious about the absence of legislation binding AI companies to a single…
Doomsday tech: could AI really kill us all?
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AI ‘Could Kill Us All’. So Why Is Nobody Slowing Down?
Is this the week when AI safety broke into the mainstream? On Wednesday, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation from the company on X, claiming that AI’s big players are “gambling with our lives”. “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade”, Coxon claimed. According to him, the race to develop systems capable of self-improving superintelligence – which can hack anything – pos…
A global commission on the dangers of AI is needed. By Kelly Sadler / The Washington Times Translation: Telegrafi.com This week, two current Anthropic researchers and a researcher who resigned from the company went public to say that empowered AI [artificial intelligence] could destroy the human race by the end of this decade. After resigning on Tuesday, Jacob Coxon, a former pre-training researcher at Anthropic and OpenAI, wrote on X: “The peop…
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