Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon has resigned, warning that leading AI companies are “gambling with our lives” by racing towards self-improving artificial intelligence. He said many people building these systems seriously believe that AI could threaten humanity by the end of this decade.
The warning became far more serious after Evan Hubinger, Anthropos’s Alignment Science lead, publicly said he personally believed there was a greater-than-10% chance that advanced AI could kill all humans within the next decade. He also admitted that there is no clear plan yet to align or control a future superintelligent system.
Hubinger later clarified that he was not describing the immediate danger from today’s AI models, which he considers relatively low risk. His concern is about future systems capable of recursive self-improvement — systems that may become far more powerful, autonomous and difficult for humans to control.
Until now, the AI debate was largely about regulation, privacy, jobs and misinformation. These revelations shift the conversation to something much bigger: whether the race for more powerful AI should continue without enforceable global safeguards, transparency and accountability. If the people building these systems fear the worst, governments cannot afford to treat the warning as science fiction.
THE AI RACE CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO BECOME A RACE AGAINST HUMANITY.
Sanjay Sahay
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