@herdotie: An AI researcher has resigned from their job after issuing terrifying warning to humanity, and the Internet is taking it suitably badly 😭 It turns out the people building AI may be more worried than they let on. Earlier this week, a former Anthropic researcher has issued a stark warning about the direction of the AI industry, arguing that the biggest AI companies are becoming caught up in a race to develop systems that could eventually become impossible to control. Jacob Coxon, who spent three years carrying out pre-training research at Anthropic and OpenAI, announced his departure from the industry in a lengthy, viral thread on X. He claimed that neither company is behaving responsibly as AI capabilities continue to advance. "They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." Coxon argued that AI could soon reach a level where superhuman systems are capable of hacking almost anything, transforming entire industries virtually overnight and gaining access to genuine power and resources. “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” Coxon wrote. According to Coxon, executives and senior researchers could deliberately use more reassuring language when speaking to the press, despite privately being far more worried about the consequences of increasingly powerful AI. “No other human activity poses this level of danger,” he said. Coxon’s warning quickly attracted attention from within the AI industry, with one Anthropic researcher appearing to confirm the seriousness of his concerns. Evan Hubinger, an alignment science lead at Anthropic, responded directly to Coxon’s claim that people developing AI genuinely believe the technology could eventually pose an existential threat to humanity. “What I am worried about is superintelligence arising from recursive self-improvement, as we have said is happening faster than we thought,” Hubinger said. #AI #jacobcoxon #anthropic #doomsday #superintelligence

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