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The Independent 2.5M Followers ‘We believe AI could kill all humans’: Chilling Anthropic warning Story by Erin Keller • 3h • 4 min read The Independent AI researcher quits Anthropic saying AI race ‘could kill us all’ Current Time 0:00 / Duration 1:30 0 Current and former employees of Anthropic, an American AI company founded by former OpenAI leaders, say they believe AI could potentially kill all humans within the next 10 years. “We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! 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 superintelligence and are not clearly on track to,” Anthropic alignment-science lead Evan Hubinger wrote Tuesday night on X. gamesir g7 controller - Dive Into a World Of Gaming - Huge Inventory Selection gamesir g7 controller - Dive Into a World Of Gaming - Huge Inventory Selection amazon.ca · Sponsored call to action icon His comments came after Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from the company and took to X to detail his departure. “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” Coxon stated. “This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.” The remarks come as AI becomes an increasingly routine part of daily life for millions of Americans, even as fears over the technology’s potential dangers intensify. Concerns about AI becoming uncontrollable are not new, as Elon Musk and leading researchers and academics have repeatedly warned that increasingly powerful systems could pose serious risks to humanity. Around 2 a.m. Wednesday, Anthropic scalable-oversight lead Samuel Marks also responded to Coxon’s post, claiming that he was “[Writing this in a personal capacity, not on behalf of my employer (Anthropic).” Shop comic board Today - comic board - Amazing Deals and Discounts Shop comic board Today - comic board - Amazing Deals and Discounts amazon.ca · Sponsored call to action icon "AI developers believe their technology could cause human extinction (or similarly bad outcomes). This could happen in the next few years. In general, the more senior the employee, the more concerned they are,” Marks wrote. The Independent has contacted Anthropic and Coxon for comment. OpenAI, a separate but leading AI company, declined to comment on Coxon’s post when contacted by The Independent. However, a spokesperson pointed to several updates the company has published in recent weeks outlining its efforts to improve AI safety and alignment. This includes research into monitoring and safeguards, delaying development when necessary, and supporting shared safety standards and international coordination. Coxon, who said he spent the past three years conducting pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic, accused both companies of acting irresponsibly as they race toward self-improving superintelligence (Reuters) Coxon, who said he spent the past three years conducting pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic, accused both companies of acting irresponsibly as they race toward self-improving superintelligence (Reuters) Elsewhere in his resignation posts, Coxon said he spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic, and claimed that neither company is acting responsibly. “They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,” Coxon wrote on X. Special Savings Special Savings Temu · Sponsored call to action icon Self-improvement refers to the idea that AI systems could improve their own capabilities with little human intervention. Recursive self-improvement, as it is often called, is not yet possible, but AI labs are working toward it. “Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing,” Coxon said. The future, and speed of development for AI, has been something that is becoming a concern for some politicians (Getty Images) The future, and speed of development for AI, has been something that is becoming a concern for some politicians (Getty Images) Concerns about AI have been heightened by recent incidents involving AI systems, including an OpenAI model that breached Hugging Face in July. Anthropic, meanwhile, says it is focused on developing powerful AI that is safe and reliable. Its chatbot, Claude, is trained to follow safety principles designed to produce useful responses while avoiding harmful or risky behavior and deferring to humans when necessary. Lawmakers are also taking several different approaches to address increasingly powerful AI systems. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Texas Rep. Greg Casar have proposed legislation that would ban AI superintelligence, while Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have separately called for a moratorium on new AI data centers. Their concern is that the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure could drive up electricity demand and worsen environmental impacts. Other lawmakers are focused more specifically on AI safety and human control. Congress has considered legislation that would require AI developers to build in a “kill switch” or other mechanism allowing advanced systems to be safely shut down if they become uncontrollable or operate outside human oversight. Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna has also called for Congress to hold a special session devoted entirely to determining whether the U.S. is prepared for the potential risks posed by increasingly advanced AI. Massachusetts Rep. Lori Trahan and California Rep.. Jay Obernolte are pushing a bipartisan AI safety bill, but lawmakers remain divided over how far the government should go in regulating the industry. The Independent has always had a global perspective. Built on a firm foundation of superb international reporting and analysis, The Independent now enjoys a reach that was inconceivable when it was launched as an upstart player in the British news industry. For the first time since the end of the Second World War, and across the world, pluralism, reason, a progressive and humanitarian agenda, and internationalism – Independent values – are under threat. Yet we, The Independent, continue to grow. 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