Anthropic insider puts >10% odds on AI causing extinction this decade, drawing fierce backlash
ZeroStateReflex · x · 2026-09-10
EvanHub tweeted that the AI community sincerely believes AI could kill all humans, putting the risk at over 10% within the next decade, while admitting Anthropic has no clear plan to solve superintelligence alignment.
The post sparked fierce pushback: reposter lukeburgis called the AI industry "the most morally deformed and confused, consequentialist industry in human history" for flippantly discussing extinction-level events.
The exchange highlights the deep divide inside and outside the AI safety camp over whether extinction risk deserves to be taken seriously.
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