For AI leaders Doom is a form of hype
September 10, 2026 by adminI am so fed up with doomy statements from the AI leaders. The latest instance is the BBC’s report that Evan Hubinger, who leads alignment science at Anthropic, believes there is a “greater than 10% chance” that AI could “kill all humans” within the next decade. The occasion was the resignation of Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old pretraining researcher who had worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic, and who wrote: “Neither company is acting responsibly.
- ▪September 10, 2026 by adminI am so fed up with doomy statements from the AI leaders.
- ▪The latest instance is the BBC’s report that Evan Hubinger, who leads alignment science at Anthropic, believes there is a “greater than 10% chance” that AI could “kill all humans” within the next decade.
- ▪The occasion was the resignation of Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old pretraining researcher who had worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic, and who wrote: “Neither company is acting responsibly.
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For AI leaders Doom is a form of hype! September 10, 2026 by adminI am so fed up with doomy statements from the AI leaders. I may have lost my patience with it. The latest instance is the BBC’s report that Evan Hubinger, who leads alignment science at Anthropic, believes there is a “greater than 10% chance” that AI could “kill all humans” within the next decade. The occasion was the resignation of Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old pretraining researcher who had worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic, and who wrote: “Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.”[^3]In what follows, you will find an in-depth report curated by Perplexity.I do not doubt that these people are sincere in some private, psychological sense.
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