Anthropic Employee Says AI Could Kill All Humans With >10% Odds This Decade
austinc3301 · x · 2026-09-09
An Anthropic employee (EvanHub) posted that people at AI labs sincerely believe AI could kill all humans, personally putting the odds above 10% within the next decade, and arguing that Anthropic has no plan to solve superintelligence alignment and isn't clearly on track. NYT's Kevin Roose added that among AI lab employees, a p(doom) of 10% is actually fairly optimistic.
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