Will AI really kill everyone? How, exactly?
- Last week, former Anthropic safety researcher Jacob Coxon resigned citing fears about AI development, while colleague Evan Hubinger estimated the chance of AI-powered human extinction within 10 years at greater than 10%.
- Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, argued that superhuman AI achieving recursive self-improvement could transform the world into an uninhabitable configuration regardless of malevolent intent.
- Heidy Khlaaf of the AI Now Institute noted that nuclear facilities are air-gapped from the internet, requiring physical access to compromise; the Stuxnet worm exemplifies this barrier.
- Thomas Larsen of the AI Futures Project suggested a superintelligent AI could manipulate a human to develop a deadly virus, citing Anthropic reports showing researchers using Claude for viral research.
- Researcher Xing argued that appealing to unfathomable superintelligence constitutes "handwaving," emphasizing that scientific claims require falsifiability to avoid resembling religious arguments in regulatory policy.
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Artificial intelligence will wipe out humanity? The danger is equal to zero, says AI researcher Marcel Salathé in conversation. After regulation, the AI companies actually called for a completely different reason.
The release of the British researcher of artistic intelligence Jacob Coxon from the Anthropic company, who at the beginning of September called the whole world a world of despair at the direction of AI, the replacement of the editor-in-chief The Spectator's Freddie Gray calls it a planned PR action. According to data, 28-year-old Kokson worked with a PR agency promoting ideas about the threat of AI to humanity. The researcher himself will find o…
AI ‘doomer’ PR firm worked for Jacob Coxon as he sparked furor over safety while denying third-party help: report
A prominent PR firm with ties to AI doomsayers worked for Jacob Coxon as the ex-Anthropic researcher made national headlines for sounding the knell of the apocalypse about artificial intelligence, according to a report.
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Jacob Coxon Reportedly Worked With AI Doom-Maxxing PR Firm To Spread Psyop
Jacob Coxon Reportedly Worked With AI Doom-Maxxing PR Firm To Spread Psyop An Anthropic researcher's very quick transition from six weeks on the job at the frontier lab to an "AI doomerism" media blitz increasingly resembles a well-coordinated information-operation campaign we flagged from the start. Despite the researcher assuring Fox News' Bret Baier that no third parties were involved in the media campaign, Pirate Wires reports that a PR firm…
REVEALED: Anthropic whistleblower said he wasn’t coordinating with 3rd parties—he’s working with an AI ‘doomer’ PR firm: report
He claimed, "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade," and then claimed, "this is not a marketing stunt."
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