According to three researchers who work with one of the biggest A.I. companies — Anthropic — artificial intelligence will kill off humanity within a decade.
One employee quit the company in protest, writing:
“Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,” wrote Jacob Coxon.
“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 privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.”
The latest doom-laden predictions came in posts on social media on Tuesday by a researcher who said he resigned because Anthropic and his previous employer, OpenAI, were ignoring or at best mishandling their response to the threat.
Vermont senator Bernie Sanders called for better congressional oversight in a post on X: “81% of Americans believe Congress isn’t doing enough to regulate AI.”
Sanders has demanded a “pause [in] AI development now”, citing the OpenAI hacking incident and warnings in July from 1,000 scientists at leading AI companies that “there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems”.