London: In a chilling warning, a top Anthropic official has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing so quickly that there is a greater than 10% chance it could “kill all humans” within the next decade.
Evan Hubinger wrote in a post on X that the risk from current models was “low”, but he was “worried” the technology could develop and improve itself soon, so much so that it might pose an existential risk to humanity.
The safety researcher at Anthropic PBC, an AI company headquartered in San Francisco and founded in 2021, did not specify as to how AI could result in humans being wiped out in forseeable future.
Hubinger’s prediction is the latest in a series of stark warnings about AI, as the debate shifts from whether it poses a risk to how big that risk is, reported BBC.
Hubinger was responding to a post on X by Jacob Coxon, an AI researcher who recently quit Anthropic, having previously worked at OpenAI.
“Neither company is acting responsibly,” Hubinger wrote. “These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionise any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources.”
Dame Wendy Hall, a computer scientist who is an AI advisor to the UN, told the BBC she was “shocked” by Hubinger and Coxon’s social media posts.
She told BBC Radio some of it could be “PR and marketing”, as Anthropic and OpenAI brace for stock market debuts.
