Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon recently quit and posted on social media that it was because “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”
Evan Hubinger, who leads the artificial intelligence company’s alignment science team, put the odds above 10% in the next 10 years. Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei called for a slowdown in the AI frontier to help mitigate the risks, an idea echoed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI CEO Elon Musk.
You might be imagining doom from killer robots with thick Austrian accents. But the greatest risk comes from cells, not steel. An Institute for Security and Technology survey of 111 national security practitioners found that 70% believe AI meaningfully increases — or soon will —?bioweapon risk. Imagine an AI-aided researcher inserting an immune-signaling gene into a poxvirus that suppresses the immune response so thoroughly it kills every unvaccinated animal it infects and most who are immunized.
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