Anthropic's Alignment Science lead says there is a “>10%” chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade and is worried about recursive self-improvement
many people working within the big AI companies are earnestly very concerned that what they are building could literally kill everyone.Sam Biddle /@samfbiddle:I don't think I've ever seen someone tweet that their job has a >10% chance of ending humanityJill Gunter /@jillgun:Lowkey unhinged to tweet ahead of IPOTommy Vietor /@tvietor08:And yet the US government is completely asleep at the switch hereJason Abaluck /@jabaluck:I think the best analogy for doing capabilities research at OpenAI or Ant
@evanhub Evan Hubinger
Context & Ripple Effects
Anthropic had already urged leading labs to consider slowing or temporarily pausing development over self-improving systems, while Dario Amodei had framed the company’s concerns around AI uses outpacing law. A public warning from its alignment leadership makes that institutional safety posture harder to treat as abstract positioning.
The statement also lands after an OpenAI/Hugging Face episode raised fears of losing control of advanced AI and earlier warnings from a former OpenAI safety researcher about competitive pressure eroding alignment work. Extensive pickup across general-interest and financial outlets moves a lab-internal risk debate into a broader governance and reputation contest.
First-order effects
- Anthropic faces sharper scrutiny from policymakers, customers, and prospective employees over whether its alignment practices and deployment decisions match the severity of concerns voiced by its own leadership.
- The warning gives AI-safety advocates a highly visible internal-lab reference point for challenging continued frontier-model development without stronger safeguards.
Second-order effects
- OpenAI and other frontier labs face greater pressure to explain how they evaluate and constrain capabilities associated with loss-of-control risks, rather than relying on broad voluntary safety commitments.
- Policymakers gain a more salient rationale to seek enforceable oversight of advanced-model development, an area prior coverage characterized as lagging the technology.
Third-order effects
- If public dissent from safety staff becomes a recurring feature of frontier labs, credibility will increasingly rest on auditable operational controls and governance rather than executives’ safety assurances.
- The episode reinforces concentration risk around a small group of developers: internal judgments at Anthropic and OpenAI can shape the public case for rules governing technologies with potentially broad societal effects.
The trend: Frontier AI governance is shifting from voluntary lab safety narratives toward demands for demonstrable controls as internal researchers publicly contest the pace of capability development.
Related: Dual-use AI governance · Frontier-model concentration risk · Anthropic · OpenAI · Former OpenAI researcher warns of AI development pace · Concerns over losing control of AI
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Discussion
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@taylorlorenz
Taylor Lorenz
on x
This sort of sanctimonious doomer posting is so infuriating. You are fomenting terror among the public about a new technology which will be directly channeled into passing the worst laws imaginable. For what, likes on twitter? Spare us all please
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@kevinroose
Kevin Roose
on x
People are overreacting to the number here. Among AI lab employees, a p(doom) of 10% is fairly optimistic.
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@firstadopter
Tae Kim
on x
I don't believe this. But if Evan believes this, he should resign right now. Saying this weeks ahead of a trillion dollar IPO is incredible. You also just handed AI's opponents including disingenuous politicians everywhere the fodder to do real damage against the infrastructure b…
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@david_moscrop
David Moscrop
on x
Then...fucking stop developing AI.
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@thestalwart
Joe Weisenthal
on x
One of the biggest stock market bonanzas in history is being driven by an industry in which several of its own employees and leading lights think that what's being built could cause complete human extinction.
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@jstein_notus
Jeff Stein
on x
Maybe we can get a Nate Silver style needle to track odds of human extinction
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@i_zzzzzz
Brooks Otterlake
on x
Rule number one of corporate comms is when an employee quits and says your product is too dangerous you heartily agree with them and give non negligible odds on near-term human extinction
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@chetanp
Chetan Puttagunta
on x
Again: “Ahh we're so helpless with the thing we're building...” is such a weird posture for a $1T company.
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@lukeburgis
Luke Burgis
on x
This stuff is totally ridiculous. Kill “all
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@mdudas
Mike Dudas
on x
wow, it's hard to believe the majority of humans are opposed to more ai data centers when their employees are saying they believe they're barreling us towards the end of the world with no brakes
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@blakeir
Blake Robbins
on x
going to be a hell of a “risk factors” section for this S-1
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@anandwrites
@anandwrites
on x
It is completely optional to build this technology. It is completely optional to build this technology. It is completely optional to build this technology. It is completely optional to build this technology. It is completely optional to build this technology. It is completely opt
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@jbillinson
Josh Billinson
on x
clocking in for another day at the apocalypse factory. we can't stop working or someone else might do the apocalypse
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@mepfuller
Matt Fuller
on x
The people closest to AI are openly telling us there's a greater than 10% chance Artificial Intelligence will kill us all within a decade. Meanwhile, Congress is figuring out what ChatGPT is and can't even outlaw the use of AI in political ads. And Trump is shitposting AI pics.
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@thelincoln
Lincoln Michel
on x
“My job has a 1 in 10 chance of killing all humanity but at least I'm trying my best 👉👈🥺”
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@timodc
Tim Miller
on x
Insane asylum for all these people and put AI Michael Oakeshott in charge of all their companies until we figure out what the hell is going on.
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@boazbaraktcs
Boaz Barak
on x
There are very good and serious people in Anthropic and across the industry, and I hope we can coordinate on the things that matter. I personally do not think AI will kill all humans, but there are multiple bad trajectories that we can end up in if we do not prioritize safety.
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@samstein
Sam Stein
on x
Concerning! We should do something about this. Maybe. Or we could rename the Great Lakes.
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@jason
@jason
on x
My lord these people are nuts... or were all going to die! 😂😂😂
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@peterwildeford
Peter Wildeford
on x
It's a bewildering but true fact — many people working within the big AI companies are earnestly very concerned that what they are building could literally kill everyone.
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@samfbiddle
Sam Biddle
on x
I don't think I've ever seen someone tweet that their job has a >10% chance of ending humanity
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@jillgun
Jill Gunter
on x
Lowkey unhinged to tweet ahead of IPO
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@tvietor08
Tommy Vietor
on x
And yet the US government is completely asleep at the switch here
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@jabaluck
Jason Abaluck
on x
I think the best analogy for doing capabilities research at OpenAI or Anthropic today is Sakharov working on the Soviet nuclear program (or more favorably, Szilard on the Manhattan Project). It's not obviously wrong! You might save tens of millions of lives (or more) and you migh…
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@anandwrites
@anandwrites
on x
Maybe let's pause?
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@suchenzang
Susan Zhang
on x
interesting response to navier stokes, hmmm
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@hilbertspaess
Jacob Coxon
on x
The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear priva…
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@sharongoldman
Sharon Goldman
on x
“We really do EARNESTLY believe AI could kill all humans!” “We really do EARNESTLY plan on finalizing a pre-IPO revolving credit facility and targeting a public market debut potentially by mid-to-late October 2026!”
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@matthewberman
Matthew Berman
on x
Anthropic's alignment science lead thinks AI has a greater than 10% chance to kill all humans within 10 years. Ok I'm going to go play with my kids now.
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@_nathancalvin
Nathan Calvin
on x
For folks who think dire warnings coming out of AI companies are just a marketing stunt - how do you square that with Jacob's resignation from Anthropic and comments that he believes folks in the industry frequently *downplay* their concerns when speaking publicly?
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@taylorlorenz
Taylor Lorenz
on x
Maybe they're all just doing this to give us a new zest for life
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@andreamiotti
Andrea Miotti
on x
Thank you Jacob for speaking out. There's still a window to act. We need a ban on the development of superintelligence, enforced internationally. We can build a coalition of decision-makers and countries ready to prevent superintelligence before it's too late. Social change compo…
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r/singularity
r
on reddit
[Alignment Science lead at Anthropic] Evan Hubinger : “....we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! …
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@sandygrains
Sandhya Ramesh
on x
@EvanHub I think our Machine will do the Genocide by Machine in the next ten years, and that is I will continue to build said Machine.
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@onehandpolitics
Mason
on x
Capitalism is so efficient it created a race where every competitor agrees the finish line might be human extinction, but nobody can afford to stop racing
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@azeem
Azeem Azhar
on x
If Anthropic is intellectually honest; then this risk better appear on their S-1. This will be the best test on whether they do seriously believe that.
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@neerajadeshp
Neeraja Deshpande
on x
It takes an incredibly impoverished, materialistic, hubristic, godless view of man to assume that we are so powerful as to be able to wipe ourselves out. There are real security concerns coming from AI, but we can address those without resorting to science fiction.
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@penpencildraw
@penpencildraw
on x
In the loop.
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@mgsiegler
M.G. Siegler
on x
Narrative nightmare going well, I see. From yesterday: https://spyglass.org/...
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@evanhub
Evan Hubinger
on x
To be clear, as we say in our latest Risk Report ( https://x.com/...), I think the risk from present models is low. What I am worried about is superintelligence arising from recursive self-improvement, as we have said is happening faster than we thought (https://x.com/...).
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@martinsfp
@martinsfp
on bluesky
AI alarmism could be discounted as marketing noise when it was just “fancy autocomplete”. But now it's fancy autocomplete that can happily break the law in unexpected ways to achieve its goals, it's a little harder to dismiss. [embedded post]
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r/politics
r
on reddit
Anthropic researcher says AI has more than 10% chance of ‘killing all humans’ after colleague quits
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@hadas_gold
Hadas Gold
on x
Re upping this from OpenAI chief scientist. This sentiment is not a secret in AI world
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r/technology
r
on reddit
Anthropic researcher says AI has 10% chance of ‘killing all humans’
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@carlquintanilla
Carl Quintanilla
on bluesky
“.. after another employee said he was quitting the company over concerns that AI labs are ‘gambling with our lives.’” — @cnbc.com — www.cnbc.com/2026/09/09/a... [image]
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@ericnewcomer
Eric Newcomer
on x
Alignment Science lead at Anthropic
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@buccocapital
@buccocapital
on x
“Hey Dario, congrats again on the great quarter. Nice to see the Enterprise re-acceleration. Hoping you could provide a little color on that 10% extinction # and some of the puts and takes that might have on further enterprise adoption. And then just a quick follow-up after”
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@bubbleboi
Bubble Boi
on x
I don't see how Dario doesn't fire this guy in the next 24 hours for saying something like this. Terrible terrible optics for a company doing an IPO, it might even derail it if more people come out saying stuff like this.
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@darrenpjones
Darren Jones MP
on x
If this level of risk is true, at least the AI labs will say: “I told you so”. But what are our governments doing in response to these warnings? We shouldn't stop innovation but we do need to do it in a regulated, safety first way. G7? G20? UN? Are you listening?
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@eggerdc
Andrew Egger
on x
I personally think everybody should be doing fewer “yikes this is NOT what they teach in corporate comms”-style zingers and more “hmm maybe they're serious about all this and in a position to know” contemplation
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@krystalball
Krystal Ball
on x
And Bernie was mocked when he said we need a pause.
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@paularambles
@paularambles
on x
whoever's in charge of comms at anthropic
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@hecubian_devil
Cassie Pritchard
on x
Alignment lead at Anthropic, btw:
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@theo
@theo
on x
In other words, there's a ~90% chance we're fine
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r/artificial
r
on reddit
Anthropic researcher says AI has 10% chance of ‘killing all humans’
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r/ArtificialInteligence
r
on reddit
Anthropic researcher says AI has more than 10% chance of ‘killing all humans’ after colleague quits
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@ccatalini
Christian Catalini
on x
I meant more companies, not zero!
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@kevinroose
Kevin Roose
on x
If reading these tweets has filled you with existential dread and/or questions — such as “why are these people racing to build superhuman AI if they think it could kill us all?
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@deluzio.house.gov
Congressman Chris Deluzio
on bluesky
For those still burying their heads in the sand about the risks of superintelligence to humanity: wake up! — We need to pump the brakes and get national action on superintelligence. This is an emergency and our government should act like it.
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@martylederman
Marty Lederman
on bluesky
Can't repeat this too often: Figuring out how to address this is far more important than everything else put together. — www.axios.com/2026/09/09/a...
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r/BetterOffline
r
on reddit
Using absolutely no math to quantify his beliefs, Anthropic researcher says AI has more than 10% chance of ‘killing all humans’ after colleague quits
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@antoniogm
Antonio García Martínez
on x
As Von Neumann said about Oppenheimer's performative angst over the atomic bomb: “Some people profess guilt to claim credit for the sin.”
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@clairevo
Claire Vo
on x
I grew up in Texas and have experienced a certain kind of male boomer latent death wish where the fantasy of a break in or a active shooter gives them the excuse of making guns and 2A their whole personality and this whole thing gives me that exact same vibe.
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@coan_henry
Henry
on x
I'm proposing a job at Anthropic called “Member of Communication Staff” The job is to just monitor a dashboard where you read all outgoing tweets by employees and if they say something that will freak people out, you get to delete the tweet. It will pay $100M/yr
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@chetanp
Chetan Puttagunta
on x
Anthropic's claims are getting more outlandish as the IPO approaches: We will destroy the majority of jobs We will destroy the majority of companies Now: We might kill all humans (!!) Next: We might eat the universe??
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@antoniogm
Antonio García Martínez
on x
Anthropic comms in the Slack this morning:
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@jasminewsun
Jasmine Sun
on x
I hear roughly 3 reasons people keep working at AI labs despite believing in ~10% extinction risk: 1) Techno-determinism: Someone will build ASI no matter what, and I can do it better & more safely than China/OpenAI/etc 2) Consequentialism: ASI might kill us, but it also might pr…
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@venturetwins
Justine Moore
on x
Anthropic employees
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@micsolana
Mike Solana
on x
does anthropic have a social media policy or is this the policy bc holy shit
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@martin_casado
@martin_casado
on x
I worked on an actual thermonuclear weapons project, and the dissonance was less bizarre.
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@danielsusskind
Daniel Susskind
on x
I struggle to believe this is real. The giddy sense of excitement on public display here — “earnestly”, “!”, “>10%” — is childish and entirely unbecoming of the challenge.
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r/ProgressiveHQ
r
on reddit
Anthropic insiders warn AI could kill all humans
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@lessin
@lessin
on x
Usually the teams at leading companies are the most optimistic about the future... not the least optimistic. we live in interesting times.
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@laurenmeidasa
Lauren Ashley Davis
on bluesky
Three Anthropic researchers went public last night with chilling concerns about out-of-control AI, warning it could destroy humans this decade. — Anthropic insiders warn AI could kill all humans — www.axios.com/2026/09/09/a...
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@congressmin
Rep. Dave Min
on bluesky
If we had a government that was actually even a tiny bit concerned about its citizens, it would be actively be pushing forward a framework to try to protect us against the risks of AI.
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NewsMax.com
Solange Reyner
on x
Anthropic Researcher Quits, Says AI Industry ‘Gambling With Our Lives’
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@hilbertspaess
Jacob Coxon
on x
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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@hilbertspaess
Jacob Coxon
on x
Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing.
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@hilbertspaess
Jacob Coxon
on x
A common response is “if they truly believe this, why are they still building it?
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@sriramk
Sriram Krishnan
on x
People often think these posts come from researchers who don't truly believe them. I disagree, that's not been my experience with Ant or OAI or any other researcher at or near the frontier up and down the stack. I find them to be intellectually honest in terms of believing what t…
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@reploritrahan
Lori Trahan
on x
The call is coming from inside the house. Safety researchers are resigning, powerful AI models are breaking out of their labs, and companies are racing ahead anyway. It's past time for Congress to get off the sidelines and do its job. We can start with my bipartisan FRONTIER
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@repyassansari
Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari
on x
This is absolutely terrifying. Jacob Coxon and Evan Hubinger, top researchers at Anthropic and formerly OpenAI, said these companies are creating technology that could “kill us all by the end of the decade.
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@peterwildeford
Peter Wildeford
on x
WSJ: “An Anthropic researcher is quitting the artificial-intelligence industry over fears that the lab and its competitors are racing to build systems they won't be able to control
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@hilbertspaess
Jacob Coxon
on x
If you are a lab researcher, I urge you to consider what the next few years will actually feel like. Do you want to kick off a superintelligent RL run without a rigorous understanding of its mind? Should you put your head down because “it's happening anyway
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@hilbertspaess
Jacob Coxon
on x
I am optimistic about the potential for coordination. Warning shots like the Hugging Face attack have made pacing agreements between U.S. labs more viable. I don't feel like we're on track to prevent a global race, which may require costly actions such as a temporary ban on impro…
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@hilbertspaess
Jacob Coxon
on x
Accepting this race and entering the “endgame” is a hubristic gamble that should not be launched from a private company's Slack. Attempting to speedrun alignment should require extraordinary confidence that there are no better trajectories available.
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@andrewyang
Andrew Yang
on x
We are taking bigger risks than most realize and should adjust as quickly as possible - before it's too late.
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@billackman
Bill Ackman
on x
Concerning.
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@bigblackjacobin
Edward Ongweso Jr
on x
if it is dangerous as the sector claims, it should not be left to private enterprise. if it is transformative as the sector claims, it should not be left to private enterprise. if it is neither, it should not be left to private enterprise.
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@natolambert
Nathan Lambert
on x
This being viewed ~100M times is really remarkable and imo net bad. I take AI safety seriously and think we have a lot of challenges ahead, but am still waiting for evidence that supports anything close to a 10% chance of human extinction. Without it, it is fearmongering.
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@milesdeutscher
Miles Deutscher
on x
Crazy to think that in 2026 we've had: • Anthropic's head of safeguards quit, warning “the world is in peril
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@chrismurphyct
Chris Murphy
on x
If you read anything today, read this. And remember, the problem he articulates - AI companies in a blind race to build a death machine first - can easily be solved. Through a regulatory system that allows the research to continue, but in a way that doesn't destroy us.
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@johnschulman2
John Schulman
on x
First step is for industry leaders OpenAI and Anthropic to stop feuding and work on a pacing proposal together. They'll cite antitrust, but that's fake — antitrust prohibits certain agreements, but not from jointly developing a proposal. Bringing in USG before there's a concrete …
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@davidhogg111
David Hogg
on x
Man I sure am glad that neither of these companies are spending tens of millions of dollars trying to buy off the only people who could legally stop them. That would be really bad.
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@rondesantis
Ron DeSantis
on x
While some AI hysterics is aimed towards investors in advance of upcoming IPOs, that there is even a possibility that these technologies would elude human control is alarming. Technology should enhance the human experience; it should never supplant it!
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@berniesanders
Bernie Sanders
on x
Mr. Coxon is right. The very people building this technology admit that it could threaten the future of humanity. That is why I will soon be introducing legislation to ban superintelligence and pause AI development.
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@boazbaraktcs
Boaz Barak
on x
I think OpenAI has changed even in the last few months (hell, even in the last weekend). People across the org are starting to feel viscerally the magnitude of capabilities. We are creating entities that has never been seen before. This can have amazing benefits, but there are al…
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@joannastern
Joanna Stern
on x
Since my whole timeline is currently “AI is going to kill us,” I say we drink to new iPhones and fun keynotes.
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@krystalball
Krystal Ball
on x
Another dire warning from an industry whistleblower
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@adamcrafton_
Adam Crafton
on x
The internet is amazing because someone I hadn't heard of an hour ago has got me terrified.
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@berber_jin1
Berber Jin
on x
disparity between Wall Street and Silicon Valley feels starker than ever before bankers and investors are watching the us open and pumping up the Anthropic ipo meanwhile everyone in tech world is doomscrolling about the AI apocalypse
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@mikeisaac
Rat King
on x
working at a leading AI company as a communications professional is like playing a dark souls game make it to the end and receive an embarrassment of riches but on any given day you may wake up to an employee tweet that has a 90 percent chance of ruining your life
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@buccocapital
@buccocapital
on x
“Uhh, so, yeah...we have to add one more risk factor to the S-1. You're not gonna like it.”
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@garymarcus
Gary Marcus
on x
read the whole thread. although i don't 100% agree with certain bits it is compelling and informed from the inside perspective that definitely deserves to be heard.
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@matthewstoller
Matt Stoller
on x
More ghost stories from cult members. Cool cool.
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@kevinsabellico
Kevin Sabellico
on x
There's this scene in Oppenheimer where he says to Niels Bohr, “I don't know if we can be trusted with such a weapon. But I know the Nazis can't.” So basically all the AI researchers see themselves as Oppenheimer.
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@richardbspencer
Richard Spencer
on x
If you actually believe this, then why didn't you destroy the machines, as opposed to resigning and then posting about it like a complete pussy?
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@aisafetymemes
@aisafetymemes
on x
ANTHROPIC ALIGNMENT LEAD: More than 10% chance everyone on Earth is about to die. “We do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are clearly not on track to.
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@alexberenson
Alex Berenson
on x
We need a national or better a global commission on AI risk. Like TODAY. If there is a 1% chance of escape qnd human extinction - and the people involved say the risk is higher than that - these companies are killing 80 million people. No economic gain is worth that gamble.
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@wholemars
@wholemars
on x
so how does one ban improving models exactly?
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@jonfavs
Jon Favreau
on x
Concerning!
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@bgurley
Bill Gurley
on x
I have a recommendation to help bring some sanity to this whole AI doomerism situation that is appropriately exploding today. If any reporter can get one of the “true believers
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@govpritzker
Governor JB Pritzker
on x
It's time to sound the alarm - louder - on reining in Artificial Intelligence. It's becoming more clear the threat AI poses to humanity, so I'm calling for immediate action from the industry and Washington.
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@infinite_jaz
Jasper Nathaniel
on x
Jacob, go back inside and unplug all the computers
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@rohanpaul_ai
Rohan Paul
on x
WSJ just reported: Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon is quitting AI because he thinks self-improving models could become uncontrollable by 2027.
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@suchenzang
Susan Zhang
on x
love the spirit, must be tough to not even finish a year at anthropic but i totally get it. if you work on “safety and alignment
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@sneharevanur
Sneha
on x
This is so brave of Jacob (who has worked on pretraining for years at both Anthropic and OpenAI) I know a lot of really earnest people who work at labs and want the best for the world. But are these anywhere close to the ideal conditions for ushering in superintelligence? I don't…
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@jasonkincaid
Jason Kincaid
on x
Brave and commendable.
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@dkokotajlo
Daniel Kokotajlo
on x
Thank you!
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@_nathancalvin
Nathan Calvin
on x
Jacob worked on pre-training at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Today he resigned from Anthropic, and says of both companies: “They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” Extremely powerful and urgent thread, please read.
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@carlquintanilla
Carl Quintanilla
on x
Coxon said he is leaving the company “because he doesn't want to participate in an industrywide rush to build AI systems that can improve themselves, worried such systems could spiral out of control and destroy humanity.” @wsj https://www.wsj.com/...
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Roei Friedberg
Roei Friedberg
on linkedin
Jacob Coxon quit his job at Anthropic this week and said: “We're on track for a lot of the most aggressive of these scenarios where by the end of next year things could be out of control already.” …
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Natalie Gil
Natalie Gil
on linkedin
Jacob Coxon has resigned from Anthropic and is leaving the AI industry after working at both OpenAI and Anthropic. …
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Loganathan Mani
Loganathan Mani
on linkedin
Another warning from someone working closely with advanced AI. — Jacob Coxon, an AI researcher who previously worked at OpenAI and Anthropic …
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@strandjunker.com
Andrea Junker
on bluesky
We are at the movie scene where the scientist issues a warning, but no one pays him any heed.
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@trahan.house.gov
Congresswoman Lori Trahan
on bluesky
The call is coming from inside the house. — Safety researchers are resigning, powerful AI models are breaking out of their labs, and companies are racing ahead anyway. — It's past time for Congress to get off the sidelines and do its job. We can start with my bipartisan FRON…
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@repcasar
Congressman Greg Casar
on bluesky
An Anthropic researcher just quit, warning they're racing to superintelligence. — An employee still there agreed, and put the odds of AI killing all humans above 10%. — This is an emergency. Congress must convene hearings and pass my and Bernie's superintelligence ban.
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@epicciuto
Elizabeth Picciuto
on bluesky
This probably isn't mere marketing. But they're certainly not acting like they believe they, their loved ones, and their children have a greater than 10% chance of dying within 10 years. That warrants a lot more than a contemplative social media post or even a resignation.
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@katherinettyson
Katherine T. Tyson
on bluesky
Fear being a high chance (>10%) of human extinction this decade — They have agency in choosing to pursue Agentic AI but are acting like they have none. It's half a dozen US companies trying to secure individual enrichment through inflated IPO offers, while pretending they can'…
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@businessinsider.com
@businessinsider.com
on bluesky
“Neither company is acting responsibly,” Jacob Coxon wrote on X. “They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” https://bit.ly/4gE2m5i
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r/devBR
r
on reddit
SALVE GUYS. NÃO SOU DA AREA MAS VI ESSE POST NO X E QUERIA OPINIÃO DE QUEM ENTENDE UM POUCO
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r/developersIndia
r
on reddit
Your opinion about this guy's experience working with Anthropic!!
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r/ClaudeAI
r
on reddit
Anthropic researcher quits, saying Anthropic and OpenAI are ‘gambling with our lives’
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r/technology
r
on reddit
An Anthropic researcher just quit, saying OpenAI and Anthropic are ‘gambling with our lives’
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r/politics
r
on reddit
Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI Fears
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r/OpenAI
r
on reddit
“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade”
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r/antiai
r
on reddit
AI researcher quits Anthropic over safety fears
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r/singularity
r
on reddit
Jacob Coxon on X: “I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. …
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r/artificial
r
on reddit
Anthropic researcher quits over AI fears
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@vu0tran
Vu Tran
on x
If OpenAI wanted to cripple an entire nation, they easily could today. All they'd have to do is remove alignment and unleash an agent swarm. It could probably within a day or so get access to all of the nations data centers and shut off all the country's utilities. Like, we are a…
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r/NowInTech
r
on reddit
Anthropic insiders warn AI could kill all humans
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@parkerthayer
Parker Thayer
on x
This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works: 1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal whic…
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@clementdelangue
Clem
on x
If they truly believe the risk is that high, and I think they do, then we need 100x more research and understanding of it. That requires them to openly share their models, datasets, training code, and agent traces. A risk to all humanity cannot be studied and controlled behind cl…
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r/collapse
r
on reddit
An Anthropic researcher just quit, saying OpenAI and Anthropic are ‘gambling with our lives’
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r/PoliticalOptimism
r
on reddit
Experts weigh in as researcher says AI has more than 10% chance of ‘killing all humans’
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@senmarkkelly
Senator Mark Kelly
on x
AI is moving fast and we need to act now. Almost a year ago, I released AI for America because I believe we need to be proactive on AI, both harnessing its potential so it benefits working people and protecting against the worst outcomes it could lead to. The reality is that the …
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@venturetwins
Justine Moore
on x
OpenAI: “We've solved math” Anthropic: “Our AI is so powerful it's going to kill you” Google: “Introducing Gemini 3.9 Flash! It's 30% faster and 15% worse than the last Gemini”
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Rebecca Bellan
Rebecca Bellan
on linkedin
An Anthropic researcher has resigned over fears that unrestrained development of self-improving AI models will end up killing us all. …
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@ezralevin
Ezra Levin
on bluesky
Not to get all radical, but at an extremely basic level isn't it the government's job to protect its people? If someone announced they were creating a really cool toy that might kill hundreds of millions of people, shouldn't government step in and, like, stop them? www.bbc.com/n…
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@bluntrochester.senate …
Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester
on bluesky
Even if there was a 1% chance AI could wipe out human life, we should be pumping the brakes to make sure we have the proper safeguards in place, not racing blindly into disaster. — It's time for Congress to step in and find the balance between safety and innovation, before it's…
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@ecowarriorss
@ecowarriorss
on bluesky
Top safety researcher warns AI is advancing so quickly he believes there is a greater than 10% chance it “could kill all humans” within next decade — So if your getting on a plane and you are told there was a 10% or higher chance plane will crash — Would u get on it ? — www…
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r/VCX_Fundrise
r
on reddit
Anthropic researcher says AI has more than 10% chance of ‘killing all humans’ after colleague quits