Will AI really kill everyone? How, exactly?
Jacob Coxon says AI firms are racing toward systems that could evade safeguards and kill humans, while other leaders call for slower development.
- Last week, former Anthropic safety researcher Jacob Coxon resigned citing fears about AI development, while colleague Evan Hubinger estimated the chance of AI-powered human extinction within 10 years at greater than 10%.
- Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, argued that superhuman AI achieving recursive self-improvement could transform the world into an uninhabitable configuration regardless of malevolent intent.
- Heidy Khlaaf of the AI Now Institute noted that nuclear facilities are air-gapped from the internet, requiring physical access to compromise; the Stuxnet worm exemplifies this barrier.
- Thomas Larsen of the AI Futures Project suggested a superintelligent AI could manipulate a human to develop a deadly virus, citing Anthropic reports showing researchers using Claude for viral research.
- Researcher Xing argued that appealing to unfathomable superintelligence constitutes "handwaving," emphasizing that scientific claims require falsifiability to avoid resembling religious arguments in regulatory policy.
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During the first part of September, the sci-fi catastrophe prevailed. Jacob Coxon – instant world fame – resigned on September 8 as an AI researcher, with a warning: the self-recursive AI models will end humanity. Company captains Dario Amodei (Anthropic), Sam Altman(OpenAI) and Elon Musk (xAI) backed the announcement. The AI is so fast that the apocalypse announced with hysteria passed at the speed of light in front of us and we could not see i…
Toby Walsh, a professor at the University of New South Wales and author of “God AI: boom or doom?”, brings order to the chaos of scenarios. In early September, artificial intelligence researcher Jacob Coxon left Anthropic, just four months after joining the company. He left behind a post on X that went viral: “The people who make AI honestly believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” The shock grew when a senior executive at the co…
POLITICS: PR Firm’s Role in AI Researcher’s Viral Warning Raises Questions as Sanders Cites It in Senate Push – The Beltway Report
A researcher’s viral warning that artificial intelligence could threaten humanity helped fuel a push in Congress for AI regulation, including from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Now new reporting is raising questions about whether the warning was as independent as it first appeared. Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old researcher who had spent roughly four months at Anthropic, resigned and posted his warning on the social platform X on September 8. The post…
The New Panic Over AI Is Reminiscent of COVID-19 Hysteria
The midterm elections are six weeks away. Suddenly, a debate has erupted over the existential dangers of artificial intelligence. Jacob Coxon, a little-known Silicon Valley researcher who worked at OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned and went public with a dire warning: AI now threatens the future of the world. Shortly beforehand, news broke of the Hugging...
Artificial intelligence will wipe out humanity? The danger is equal to zero, says AI researcher Marcel Salathé in conversation. After regulation, the AI companies actually called for a completely different reason.
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