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Title: Anthropic Researcher Believes More Than 10% Chance AI 'Could Kill All
Humans'

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/26/09/09/1943258/a...

Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from the BBC: A top
safety researcher at Anthropic has warned AI is advancing so quickly he
believes there is a greater than 10% chance it "could kill all humans" within
the next decade. Evan Hubinger said in a post on X the risk from the models
which currently exist was "low" but he was "worried" the technology might
develop and improve itself soon to the point where it posed an existential
risk to humanity. He did not spell out how he thought AI systems could in the
future result in humans being wiped out. But his comments are the latest in a
series of increasingly stark warnings about AI, with the debate shifting from
whether it truly poses a risk to how big that risk is. Hubinger's
intervention was in response to another post on X from Jacob Coxon, an AI
researcher who has just quit Anthropic and previously worked at OpenAI.
"Neither company is acting responsibly," he wrote. "These will soon be
superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight,
and acquire real power and resources." [No word on how AIs feel about Black
Jack and hookers, though. :-)]

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