AI could wipe out humanity by launching a devastating pandemic or by causing critical water shortages, technology experts have warned, after two employees at a top AI firm warned human extinction is a possibility within ten years.
Evan Hubinger, the Alignment Science lead at Anthropic AI, has said the technology firms “really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans”, giving it a more than one in ten chance.
“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,” he wrote in a post on X.
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The warning came after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit – saying that both the company and OpenAI – the maker of Chat GPT where Coxon used to work – are “gambling with our lives”.
