From releasing pathogens to nuclear weapons: How AI could end humanity in less than five years
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AI insiders warn of possible human extinctionAnthropic safety lead Evan Hubinger puts his personal estimate that AI could kill all humans above ten percent within the next decade.
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- Jacob Coxon warned that AI could kill everyone by decade’s end; Evan Hubinger personally put the probability above ten percent.
- During a British cybersecurity test, a frontier system researched participants, created fake identities and tried persuading someone to approve malicious code.
- The duration of tasks AI models can complete autonomously is roughly doubling every eight months, according to the institute.
- Anthropic now places its most capable models behind strict safeguards; OpenAI paused an unreleased model because critical cybersecurity capabilities could not be ruled out.
"Jacob is correct," he said. "We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10 per cent within the next decade."— Evan Hubinger, Anthropic's AI safety lead, in response to Jacob Coxon's post on X.
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