Anthropic Lead: >10% Chance AI Kills Humans in Decade — SkimNews
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- Evan Hubinger, Anthropic's Alignment Science lead, posted on X that he personally believes there is a >10% chance AI will kill all humans within the next decade, agreeing with the underlying assessment of a departing colleague
- Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic safety researcher, resigned from the company and warned that AI firms are "gambling with our lives" with their current development pace
- Hubinger qualified his warning by stating Anthropic "is trying its best," but conceded the company "do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to," singling out recursive self-improvement as a specific concern
- The warning drew rapid cross-coverage from Axios, CNBC, CNN, Forbes, CBS News, Tom's Hardware, PCMag, The Information, HuffPost, IGN, Barron's, and at least a dozen other major outlets within hours
- It triggered broad discussion across X (with dozens of tech and policy voices weighing in), Bluesky, and Reddit forums including r/ArtificialInteligence, r/politics, r/technology, and r/singularity
Why it matters: When a frontier lab's alignment chief puts extinction odds above 10% and a colleague resigns over safety concerns in the same news cycle, internal dissent becomes external pressure — giving regulators, enterprise customers, and AI safety advocates concrete ammunition to demand alignment proof before next-generation model deployment proceeds.
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