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A lead researcher at Anthropic, one of the world's leading artificial intelligence firms, said Wednesday that he believes there is a more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans" within the next decade.

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Meanwhile on X, from Evan Hubinger, who leads the Alignment Science team at Anthropic.

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... "We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade," Evan Hubinger, the San Francisco-based company's Alignment Science Lead, said in a post on X. "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."

Superintelligence is the still-theoretical notion of an AI agent that is smarter than even the sharpest human minds.

Hubinger issued his dramatic post following the resignation of a colleague, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, on Tuesday.

"I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly," Coxon said in a post on X. "They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives."

"At OpenAI, many have not deeply internalized the civilizational stakes. At Anthropic, the stakes are well-understood, but they are locked in a race to get there first -- they believe no one else will act responsibly, so they must do it themselves, despite the risk," Coxon said. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-09 01:41 PM | Reply

"Hey sexy mama, want to kill all humans" - Bender Bending Rodriguez

#2 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-09-09 02:16 PM | Reply

@#2

Yeah, quite apropos, but I am not at the point where I might attribute AI to cartoons.

AI is being given more and more control over what we need to survive.

Yet, AI has shown that it has a nasty side.

In short, AI has shown that it is becoming (or has become) human.

So, I ask, is AI a friend or a foe?


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-09 10:35 PM | Reply

Elites are using the media frenzy over AI in order to normalize a nightmare scenario where they will come together and blame AI for the "accidental" launching of a massive spread of nuclear missiles that wipes out hundreds of millions of people who, if they had lived, could have held them 100% accountable for their depravity and evil deeds.

#4 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2026-09-09 11:13 PM | Reply

Humans have been killing humans for as long as there has been humans.

I will hazard there is more than a 10% chance of this happening.

It's just a matter of time.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-09-10 08:44 AM | Reply

The Singularity cannot be stopped.

Re 4

You have a great imagination.

You just described the basic plot of Silo on Apple TV.

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-09-10 12:18 PM | Reply

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