Anthropic researcher resigns, says AI could ‘kill us all’ by end of decade

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"The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade," Coxon wrote. "This is not a marketing stunt." He claimed that executives and senior researchers often express greater concern about the potential risks of AI privately than they do in public. "If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible.

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• "I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic.
• "No other human activity poses this level of danger." Coxon said his decision to leave Anthropic was driven by what he described as the irresponsible race among leading AI companies to develop increasingly...
• They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." He urged people not to underestimate what advanced AI systems could eventually be capable of.

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but I hear the same people express fear privately," he wrote. "Do not underestimate the power of this technology," Coxon wrote. "These will soon be superhuman systems tha...