AI could kill us, Anthropic researcher says after resigning

The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade, Coxon said on X, explaining his resignation.

AI could kill us, Anthropic researcher says after resigning The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade, Coxon said on X, explaining his resignation. Jacob Coxon, who spent three years working on pretraining at both OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned Tuesday and explained his decision on X. 

"I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving super-intelligence and gambling with our lives,” he said. "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” he added.

That statement makes Cameron's 42-year-old fiction look almost prophetic. The movie opens with machines waging war on humans in 2029, the same rough window Coxon says insiders are quietly worried about. Coxon isn't alone at Anthropic making the extinction case. 

The company's own alignment lead, Evan Hubinger, has said separately he'd put the odds above 10%.

“Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to,” Hubinger said. (Read More)

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Senior Researcher Brad Myers Comments;

While a former Anthropic researcher warns that "the people building AI earnestly believe that it could KILL US ALL by the end of the decade," Jesus Christ says this will not happen in Matthew 24:21-22.

"This will be the worst time of suffering since the beginning of the world, and nothing this terrible will ever happen again. If God doesn't make the time shorter, NO ONE WILL BE LEFT ALIVE. But because of God's chosen ones, he will make the time shorter." (CEV; emphasis addded)

What is truly alarming is the strong possibility that we are all witnessing how AI might be used to kill humans in the future, specifically during the time when the Antichrist and the false prophet use this technology to track and execute those who do not worship the Antichrist (Rev. 13:15).