Anthropic Researcher says More Than 10% Chance AI 'could Kill All Humans'
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.[image or embed] -- Christiaan Triebert (@trbrtc.bsky.social) 11:06 PM · Sep 8, 2026
Meanwhile on X, from Evan Hubinger, who leads the Alignment Science team at Anthropic.[image or embed]
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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. ...
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
I just question how AI could say, kill the residents of somewhere like North Sentinel Island, or some of the remote tribes in different parts of the world. The only thing I could think of would be somehow convincing people to kill everyone.
#7 | Posted by madbomber at 2026-09-10 01:04 PM | Reply
It's Y2K all over again!!
#8 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-09-10 01:19 PM | Reply
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