Miriam Waldvogel and Ian DuncanSep 10, 2026 – 8.17amSan Francisco | A researcher at AI company Anthropic offered a bleak prediction this week that the systems the company is racing to build carried the risk of causing human extinction, reigniting a debate about the gravest dangers that future forms of the technology could pose.“We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is 10 per cent within the next decade,” wrote Evan Hubinger 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.”Washington PostSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
‘Could kill us all’: Anthropic insiders spark extinction warnings
Anthropic has built its reputation as the safety-minded AI company. But some of its researchers fear the race it has joined could end with humanity’s destruction.
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Evan Hubinger (Anthropic) stima 10% probabilità estinzione umana dai sistemi AI entro decennio; manca piano alignment superintelligence. Accelera scrutinio su governance del rischio AI nelle decisioni di adoption di foundation models.
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