Jacob Coxon, who spent three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned this week and wrote publicly that the people building AI earnestly believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade. His post has been viewed more than 70 million times. Anthropic’s own alignment lead, Evan Hubinger, backed him up, saying he personally believes there is a greater than 10 percent chance AI causes human extinction within the next decade.
Anthropic Researcher Quits, Says AI Could Kill Everyone
