Posted on 09/13/2026 6:35:19 AM PDT by Salman
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon publicly announced his resignation on X late Monday over concerns that AI "could kill us all by the end of the decade."
A lot of people have expressed opinions about his point of view, leading to more than 110 million views of the message in less than 24 hours, perhaps helped along by X algorithms that boost messages critical of owner Elon Musk's AI rivals, Anthropic and OpenAI.
But the real problem isn't the models themselves, but the companies who carelessly unleash them on the world and don't take any responsibility for what their products do
Coxon's former colleague, science lead Evan Hubinger, insists his view is a fair assessment of what employees really think.
"Jacob is correct here – we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10 percent within the next decade," wrote Hubinger in a social media post. "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."
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> you build something when there is a requirement ...yet we keep building a crazy amount of them all over the worldWe don't keep building them, we keep announcing them.
1, announce you are building 1,000,000 data centers
2, apply for permits for 1000 of them
3, actually get permission for 10
4, sell those sites to the companies who actually need them - to serve facebook posts complaining about data centers
5, profit
There is probably a side business in all the news stories about data centers and selling supplies to people protesting them - but that's just keeping the economy running
I find it interesting that the author points out that X algorithms boost posts that are critical of Elon Musk’s rivals.
I wonder if that is really true, it’s stated as a fact, how would this person know what exactly the algorithm is doing.
I’m stunned at how many 2A supporters I encounter who don’t get this.
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