Anthropic researchers warn 'AI could kill all humans'
Evan Hubinger-lead at top artificial intelligence lab Anthropic, has warned that there is a greater than 10% chance advanced AI systems could cause human extinction within the decade
Following Artificial intelligence (AI) pros and cons, a top safety researcher at Anthropic has warned AI is advancing so quickly he believes there is a greater than 10% chance it "could kill all humans" within the next decade.
Evan Hubinger, Alignment Science Lead at top artificial intelligence lab Anthropic, has warned that there is a greater than 10 percent chance advanced AI systems could cause human extinction within the decade.
In a public statement addressing safety thresholds, Hubinger candidly noted that while labs like Anthropic are making significant efforts, the broader industry does not yet have a definitive, guaranteed plan to solve the alignment problem for superintelligence before capabilities outpace control.
The warning follows the high-profile resignation of fellow Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon.
Coxon, who spent three years conducting pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic, publicly condemned frontier labs for accelerating rapidly toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling with existential risk.
While major AI developers heavily emphasize safety frameworks and regulatory compliance, mounting internal friction reveals deep anxiety among front-line researchers over the speed of scaling toward uncontrollable autonomous systems.
Evan Hubinger said in a post on X the risk from the models which currently exist was "low" but he was "worried" the technology might develop and improve itself soon to the point where it posed an existential risk to humanity.
He did not spell out how he thought AI systems could in future result in humans being wiped out.
But his comments are the latest in a series of increasingly stark warnings about AI, with the debate shifting from whether it truly poses a risk to how big that risk is.
Hubinger's intervention was in response to another post on X from Jacob Coxon, an AI researcher who has just quit Anthropic and previously worked at OpenAI.
"Neither company is acting responsibly," he wrote.
"These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources."
