Will AI kill us all within the next decade?
Brief
The Wall Street Journal reports that concerns are rising inside AI labs that competition is pushing tech companies to race toward self-improving models that could spiral out of human control.
Jacob Coxon, an AI researcher who has worked at Anthropic and OpenAI, said :
“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”
Evan Hubinger, Anthropic’s Alignment Science lead, who also worked at OpenAI, responded in a post on X :
“We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is 10% within the next decade.”
Hubinger added:
“What I am worried about is superintelligence arising from recursive self-improvement, as we have said is happening faster than we thought.”
That figure should be treated as Hubinger’s personal assessment.