Anthropic Safety Researcher Quits, Warns AI Could Kill All Humans By 2036
An AI safety researcher who just quit Anthropic has ignited another debate over existential risk, claiming/warning that humanity faces a real threat of extinction from unaligned superintelligence within the next decade.
The alarm comes from the mouth of Jacob Coxon, a key researcher who spent three years leading pretraining efforts at both OpenAI and Anthropic, who announced his departure from the company. The reason? Coxon accused leading AI labs of engaging in an unrestrained, reckless arms race toward self-improving superintelligence and effectively "gambling with our lives."
In a series of posts on X, Coxon warns that current advancements will soon yield superhuman systems capable of hacking any digital infrastructure, acquiring real-world power, and revolutionizing any discipline overnight without adequate safeguards. Dismissing rebuttals that such apocalyptic warnings are mere publicity stunts, Coxon emphasized that top tech executives and researchers express deep, candid existential fears behind closed doors while maintaining more measured...
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