Understanding the three types of AI amid the AI boom
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A senior Anthropic safety researcher said on Tuesday that artificial intelligence (AI) has a greater than 10% chance to "kill all humans" within "the next decade," responding to a former employee who resigned after accusing the company of acting irresponsibly.
Former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon wrote in a lengthy resignation thread posted to X on Sunday that "the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade."
"I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," he wrote.
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Responding to Coxon's thread in a quoted post, the company's alignment science lead, Evan Hubinger, conceded that Coxon's assessment was correct, though he added some caveats.
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"Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!" Hubinger wrote.
"I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for...
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