Anthropic researcher: >10% chance AI kills all humans within a decade, alignment unsolved
EvanHub · x · 2026-09-09
- Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger says AI builders earnestly believe AI could kill all humans — it's not marketing. He personally estimates >10% probability within the next decade.
- He admits Anthropic is trying its best, but there is not yet a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence, and it's unclear the current path leads there.
- The quoted post notes executives and senior researchers hedge in public but express the same fear privately; no other human activity poses this level of danger.
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