Anthropic alignment lead agrees AI "kill all humans" odds exceed 10% in next decade
firstadopter · x · 2026-09-14
- Former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon claimed the probability that AI will "kill all humans" is greater than 10% in the next decade, and Anthropic's Alignment Science lead Evan Hubinger agreed.
- firstadopter blasts the claim as shameful and irresponsible: it amounts to saying any newborn faces a >10% chance of perishing at AI's hands before middle school.
- Such doomsday probability claims are leaping into the mainstream, reigniting debate over the bounds of AI-safety rhetoric.
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