AI Apocalypse: Resignations Spark Fears of Superhuman Systems Taking Over, ETEnterpriseai
AI Apocalypse: Resignations Spark Fears of Superhuman Systems Taking Over, ETEnterpriseai
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‘AI could kill us all’: Why top researchers are warning AI may cause human extinction by next decade
AI researcher Jacob Coxon’
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‘AI could kill us all’: Why top researchers are warning AI may cause human extinction by next decade
AI researcher Jacob Coxon’s resignation from Anthropic rekindles fears over whether increasingly autonomous systems can be kept under human control– a scenario which has time and again been highlighted by the builders of this technology.
Meenakshi Thakur
ETEnterpriseAI
Published On Sep 10, 2026 at 03:47 PM IST
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Recent incidents of AI going rogue seem to be reinforcing the fears of these so-called ‘doomsayers’.
The apocalyptic scenario for human civilisation heralded by unbridled development of
artificial intelligence
is again in the news. On September 9, AI researcher Jacob Coxon, announced on X that he has resigned from Anthropic. Reason? The “irresponsible” behaviour of these tech giants who are “in a race to get there first” .
Coxon highlighted that many executives and senior researchers may be toning down their concerns in public to sound sensible, but “privately, the same people express fear” and acknowledge the fact that “no other human activity poses this level of danger”.
“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” he said on X.
“Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing (sic),” he added in a series of tweets.
Later, Evan Hubinger, a top safety researcher at Anthropic, jumped into the crack-of-a-doom conversation and quantified the numbers, saying that 10 per cent of humans could be killed by the end of the decade.
“Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all human