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The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Confirms It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’
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Artificial intelligence researcher Jacob Coxon sent shock waves through Silicon Valley and beyond on Tuesday by announcing his resignation from Anthropic and delivering a grave warning that the AI race is putting all of their lives at risk.
Key facts
- Evan Hubinger, the AI alignment lead at Anthropic, predicted in a post on X that there’s a greater than 10 percent chance that AI could kill all people in the next decade
- Artificial intelligence researcher Jacob Coxon sent shock waves through Silicon Valley and beyond on Tuesday by announcing his resignation from Anthropic and delivering a grave warning that the AI
- Silicon Valley is scrambling to reckon with the safety and security concerns of advanced AI models
- Coxon notes that incidents like the Hugging Face hack factored into his decision to raise alarm bells on the AI race
Summary
“The consensus is that the next year or two is crunch time for humanity,” Coxon, who worked on the pretraining stage of AI development, said . It’s far from the first time someone has sounded the alarm about AI, but it comes at a delicate moment. What’s become clear in the response to Coxon’s post is that his views are indeed shared by many of his peers. What’s less obvious is how exactly these AI fears will come to pass and what the world is supposed to do about the concerns being raised by the people building AI.