Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger: >10% chance AI kills all humans within a decade
SydSteyerhart · x · 2026-09-09
Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger publicly reaffirmed the company's sincerity about AI risk: he personally puts the chance that AI kills all humans at over 10% within the next decade. He stressed Anthropic is trying its best, but "we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track." e/acc figure beffjezos responded that doommongers should be fired, highlighting the deepening safety-vs-acceleration divide.
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