Anthropic safety lead: 10% chance AI kills humans
anthropic safety researcher evan hubinger says there's a greater than 10% chance ai could kill all humans by the end of the decade, echoing concerns raised by departing colleague jacob coxon.
evan hubinger, who leads one of anthropic's ai safety teams, said he personally estimates the chances of ai killing all humans to be greater than one in 10 'within the next decade'. this is despite anthropic not having a plan to ensure advanced ai remains safe and aligned with human values. jacob coxon, a researcher who trained ai systems at anthropic, quit the company over its lax approach to safety, accusing anthropic and openai of 'racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives'. coxon's departure highlights mounting concerns within the industry about the dangers of increasingly sophisticated ai models and the speed at which systems are being developed.