If I were to tell you that a huge existential threat to national security, economic prosperity and all human life on Earth was currently looming over us, your terrified mind might jump straight to AI.
After all, 10 years is what we’ve been generously given before humanity is potentially wiped out, according to the latest tech bro chat. That number was recently lobbed into public discourse like a grenade by Evan Hubinger, a leading safety researcher at Anthropic, who warned in a series of Twitter posts that there’s a greater than 10 per cent chance artificial intelligence “could kill all humans” within the next decade.
