Anthropic Researcher Puts AI Extinction Risk Above 10% This Decade, Admits No Alignment Plan
SIGKITTEN · x · 2026-09-09
Anthropic researcher EvanHub publicly stated that the team genuinely believes AI could kill all humans, personally estimating the risk at over 10% within the next decade. He says Anthropic is trying its best, but has no plan yet to solve alignment for superintelligence and is not clearly on track. Critics replied that the statement amounts to admitting failure at the job while making the employer look bad, with zero actionable outcome.
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