Worried about an AI apocalypse? Some researchers say one of the most extreme versions of that scenario is overblown.
The debate has reached a fever pitch in the week since Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old researcher, quit Anthropic and warned that it and his other former employer, OpenAI, were “gambling with our lives” as they raced toward self-improving superintelligence.
Evan Hubinger, who leads Anthropic’s alignment stress-testing team, backed Coxon, saying he personally believes there is a greater-than-10% chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade.
But other researchers have pointed to the gap between what AI could do in the digital…
