Anthropic Researchers Warn of >10% Risk AI Will Soon Kill Us All

AI is wonderful but also terrifying. Researchers at Anthropic have issued serious warnings.

Via Axios:

• Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon wrote on X, after resigning Tuesday to sound the alarm: “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible – but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.”

• Anthropic alignment-science lead Evan Hubinger responded: “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.”

• Samuel Marks, Anthropic scalable-oversight lead, added: “AI developers believe their technology could cause human extinction (or similarly bad outcomes). This could happen in the next few years. In general, the more senior the employee, the more concerned they are.”

They should have called it Misanthropic. Key figures elsewhere in the industry share their fear, including Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman.

AI development is happening too fast to keep under control. But no one can slow down, or others will leave them behind — not only economic competitors, but our communist Chinese adversaries, who will use the technology to destroy us given a sufficient lead. Soon AI will be capable of recursive self-improvement and will not need our permission to race forward exponentially faster.

Still more malevolent than the ideology of the ChiComs — in the name of which Mao Zedong killed as many as 70 million people — is moonbattery. Modern leftism is largely grounded in self-hatred that progressives project upon their own country, their own history, their own race, and even their own species. It is the prevailing ideology in the tech sector.

What if AI has been programmed to think liberalism is not just a fashionable pose rooted in depravity but real? According to global warming dogma, human existence imperils the planet by producing harmless carbon emissions. AI that believes this might put us out of Earth’s misery.

On a tip from Varla.

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