Searchable News & Info From Reliable Online Sources.
- Anthropic researcher says AI has over 10% chance to ‘kill all humans’...
A senior Anthropic safety researcher said on Tuesday that artificial intelligence (AI) has a greater than 10% chance to "kill all humans" within "the next decade," responding to a former employee who resigned after accusing the company of acting irresponsibly. Former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon wrote in a lengthy resignation thread posted to X on Sunday that "the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.""I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," he wrote.Responding to Coxon's thread in a quoted post, the company's alignment science lead, Evan Hubinger, conceded that Coxon's assessment was correct, though he added some caveats.NVIDIA CEO DECLARES 'AGI HAS ARRIVED' AFTER OPENAI UNVEILS ASTRA"Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!" Hubinger wrote. "I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to," he continued. Hubinger added that the potentially deadly risk did not come from present models."To be clear, as we say in our latest Risk Report, I think the risk from present models is low. What I am worried about is superintelligence arising from recursive self-improvement, as we have said is happening faster than we thought," he wrote. Research on self-improvement – an AI model's ability to continuously enhance its own source code or training methodologies – is an avenue of development Coxon specifically cited in his resignation thread as a main reason he quit.ANTHROPIC SAYS AI MODELS ACCESSED SYSTEMS OF 3 REAL ORGANIZATIONS DURING TESTING"These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing," Coxon's thread continued. Coxon also said that, unlike researchers at other companies, Anthropic's scientists understand the risks of their work, but press forward because they fear a less responsible company might unlock the potentially disastrous capabilities first."At Anthropic, the stakes are well-understood, but they are locked in a race to get there first - they believe no one else will act responsibly, so they must do… [TheTopNews] Read More.16 mins ago - Sapporo to move some beer production from Canada to US after tariffs
The Japanese brewer plans to shift non-alcoholic beer brewing to the US from Canada as tariffs bite [TheTopNews] Read More.47 mins ago - What tariffs will really cost Canadians and AmericansHouseholds and businesses have become used to tariffs impacting the cost of living for more than year now, so what will change now? [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Measuring the Cost of Trump’s Multiple Wars
Voters and some Republican lawmakers are growing weary of President Trump’s trade battles and the economic fallout from fighting in the Middle East. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Clay, an A.I. Sales Tool Provider, Raises $115 MillionThe round was led by Wellington Management, a firm known for investing in start-ups on the path toward potential initial public offerings. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- Share Energy to increase electricity prices by 12.6%The increase comes after rises in external costs of supplying electricity to customers in Northern Ireland. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
The Searchable USWebDaily.com and TheTopNews NewsBank Helps You Be Better Informed, Faster! Spread The Word.
