Is there really a 10% chance AI could kill us all? - Los Angeles Times
Is there really a 10% chance AI could kill us all? - Los Angeles Times
摘要: A researcher at trailblazing firm Anthropic resigned this week, issuing a dire warning: Top AI companies are gambling with humanity’s future.
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A researcher at trailblazing firm Anthropic resigned this week, issuing a dire warning: Top AI companies are gambling with humanity’s future.
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Nilesh Christopher
Staff Writer
Sept. 11, 2026
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AI safety researchers at Anthropic warn superhuman systems could hack, build bioweapons, or seize critical infrastructure, estimating more than a 10% chance that advanced AI could wipe out humanity this decade.
Increasingly autonomous AI agents already make high-stakes decisions, raising fears that misaligned goals and loss of human oversight could trigger catastrophic, unintended consequences.
Policymakers from Washington to Sacramento race to impose new guardrails.
Artificial intelligence anxiety reached new highs this week as industry leaders highlighted growing concerns that humans could lose control of the increasingly potent technology.
A researcher at trailblazing firm Anthropic resigned
this week,
issuing a dire warning: Top AI companies are gambling with humanity’s future.
Jacob Coxon cautioned that both OpenAI and Anthropic are recklessly racing to build AI systems they cannot fully control or comprehend.
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“These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources,” Coxon said in a post on X. He said Anthropic and OpenAI, where he has also worked, are downplaying the potential power of what they are building.
“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” he said.
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