AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - AI insiders warn the technology could end humanity by 2030 — and some see Nostradamus coming along for the ride
A former researcher at two of the world's leading artificial intelligence companies resigned and publicly warned that the people building AI believe it could kill everyone on Earth by the end of the decade, a claim his former colleague at Anthropic promptly confirmed. Jacob Coxon, who worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic before quitting Anthropic […] The post AI insiders warn the technology could end humanity by 2030 — and some see Nostradamus coming along for the ride appeared first on American Almanac .
A former researcher at two of the world's leading artificial intelligence companies resigned and publicly warned that the people building AI believe it could kill everyone on Earth by the end of the decade, a claim his former colleague at Anthropic promptly confirmed. Jacob Coxon, who worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic before quitting Anthropic this month, posted a blunt warning on X on September 9. He did not couch it in academic hedging or corporate jargon. He said the engineers and scientists racing to build the most powerful AI systems on the planet genuinely believe those systems could wipe out the human race, and that nobody in charge is doing enough to stop it. The warning landed hard because of what followed. A day after Coxon's…Open
