Anthropic researcher: >10% chance AI kills all humans within a decade, no alignment plan
AICopyLab · x · 2026-09-09
In an X exchange, Anthropic researchers laid out their view that the downside risk of AI could literally be human extinction, with one putting the odds at greater than 10% within the next decade.
- Core argument: we don't currently know how to solve alignment for the superintelligence we're racing toward, yet the race continues anyway — an "extraordinary statement."
- The author adds that Anthropic is trying its best but "does not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and is not clearly on track to."
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