People argue that Artificial intelligence stepped in to make life easier. It can write, calculate, code, analyze data, and solve problems, but some of the people building these systems are also worried about where all this progress could lead.
Earlier this month, AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic after only four months at the company. In a post on X, he wrote that “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could” wipe out humanity “by the end of the decade.” That might sound like a dramatic reason to quit a job, but Coxon wasn’t the only person at Anthropic expressing concern.
Senior Anthropic staff member Evan Hubinger responded to Coxon and said he personally believes there is more than a 10% chance of such an outcome happening within the next decade. The comments quickly attracted attention and added fuel to an already growing debate about how quickly AI research should move.
