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New warnings about the risks of AI to humanity revive a long-running debate
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The debate focuses on whether advanced AI could escape human control and ultimately threaten humanity’s survival, and whether the companies developing the technology are doing enough to prevent such a scenario.
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Jacob Coxen was an AI researcher with Anthropic before he resigned from the company on Tuesday, said that there will soon be "superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources."
An artificial intelligence researcher who left OpenAI to join Anthropic has decided to leave the industry, accusing both US companies of "playing with our lives" in the race to develop AI models capable of self-improvement.
Three Anthropic researchers went public last night with chilling concerns about out-of-control AI , warning it could destroy humans this decade. 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…
A researcher for one of the largest and most valuable artificial intelligence companies publicly quit while raising the alarm that the technology “could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Jacob Coxon, who has performed pre-training research at Anthropic and OpenAI for the last three years, poste…
By Hadas Gold, Martin Goillandeau, David Goldman, CNN (CNN) — “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” That blunt admission from former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon made waves Tuesday, as the just-quit 27-year-old AI researcher spilled the bean…
A former Anthropic researcher who recently resigned spoke out on social media, saying he thinks the current rate of unchecked AI development could "kill us all." Jo Ling Kent reports.
An Anthropic researcher is leaving AI, warning it could be out of control by late 2027. OpenAI’s chief scientist is also urging caution, saying no one is prepared for rising machine intelligence.
An Anthropic researcher has walked away from the artificial-intelligence industry, warning that leading labs are racing toward machines that may soon improve themselves beyond human control. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Jacob Coxon said Tuesday he is leaving because he will no…
Multiple current and former Anthropic employees warned — and admitted — on Tuesday that the researchers building new AI models believe the technology could lead to humanity’s destruction by the end of the decade, reflecting the industry’s frenzy over reining in rapid development.
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