In early September, Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old British AI researcher at Anthropic, resigned from the company and AI industry, citing concerns that AI poses a greater than 10% chance of killing all humans. Other AI researchers have since echoed warnings about AI's potential threat to humanity, sparking broader debate about AI safety.
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Jacob Coxon, 27, a British AI researcher who worked on pretraining at OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned from Anthropic and said he was leaving the AI industry because he believes leading labs are racing to build self-improving systems they may not be able to control [dawn.com#1][techjuice.pk#1][businessinsider.com#1][20min.ch#1]. The Wall Street Journal first reported his departure, which Dawn descri
An Anthropic safety researcher said there is a greater than 10% chance AI could "kill all humans" after a former colleague quits over safety concerns.
Anthropic AI safety researcher has warned there's a more than 10% chance AI could kill all humans.
A senior Anthropic safety researcher has said there is more than a 10 percent chance artificial intelligence "could kill all humans" by the end of the decade, just hours after a colleague resigned over fears the AI lab and its rivals are carelessly racing to build "superhuman systems" they cannot control. In a post on […]
There is a more than 10% chance that "AI could kill all humans" in the next decade, a top safety researcher at Anthropic has said.
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A top Anthropic researcher says there's more than a 10% chance AI "could kill all humans," after a colleague resigned over similar concerns.
A former Anthropic researcher who recently resigned spoke out on social media, saying he thinks the current rate of unchecked AI development could "kill us all." Jo Ling Kent reports.
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon has walked away from the company, saying it is "gambling with our lives." Seth Fiegerman has more on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)
Anthropic researcher says more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans" L: https://www. cbsnews.com/news/ai-kill-human s-anthropic-researcher-more-than-ten-percent-chance/ C: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4 9627887 posted on 2026.09.09 at 11:10:39 (c=3, p=12)
Anthropic safety executive Evan Hubinger says AI could kill humans.
A lead researcher at Anthropic said Wednesday he believes there's a more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans" within the next decade. The comments came in response to a social media post from another Anthropic researcher who said he was resigning while claiming OpenAI and Anthropic aren't acting responsibly. Gerrit De Vynck, AI reporter for the Washington Post, joins CBS News to discuss.
A lead researcher at Anthropic said "AI could kill all humans" on Tuesday, giving it a more than 10% chance within the next decade. The call now is for a global conversation about risk and safety. Jo Ling Kent has more from Silicon Valley, and Tristan Harris, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, goes deeper.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but "I think there's a 10% chance AI will kill us all in the next decade" is literally a TESCREAL cult talking point. There's nothing behind it. They believe they're so especially smart that their wild guesses at armageddon count as data.
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit over AI safety fears two months before his equity vested, forfeiting his stake as the company heads for a reported $2 trillion IPO. The 27-year-old ex-OpenAI researcher said both labs are racing to self-improving superintelligence. Axios reported the forfeited shares. Anthropic alignment lead Evan Hubinger publicly agreed, putting the odds of AI killing all hu
An artificial intelligence researcher who left OpenAI to join Anthropic has decided to leave the industry, accusing both US companies of "gambling with our lives" in the race to develop AI models capable of self-improvement. Anthropic safety executive Evan Hubinger backed up Coxon on X. "We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!" he said, adding that he estimated that risk at more t
A British researcher at Anthropic says he is quitting the AI industry over fears it is building systems that humans cannot control. The firm hasn’t commented, but one of its top scientists, Evan Hubinger, cheerily wrote on social media that Jacob Coxon’s analysis was broadly correct: “We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!”
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the researcher who quit anthropic recently said better than 10% chance ai is instrumental in designing new bioweapons which will kill the entire population. I think there is less than a zero chance and that is bad enough
NBC News' Tom Llamas spoke to two more artificial intelligence researchers about the potential threat A.I has to humanity. This comes after AI researcher Jacob Coxon shared a viral tweet saying he believed AI could kill humanity in the next decade. Llamas also spoke to Incoming Professor at UC Berkley Sayash Kapoor who also warns of risk, but says policy proposals and regulations can help prevent
Two tech insiders are sounding the alarm on artificial intelligence. Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warns that AI could "kill us all," and now former Google DeepMind researcher Alex Turner warns that society is "just not prepared."