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'More than 10% chance AI could kill all humans in next 10 years,' says Anthropic researcher

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/09/09/anthropic-ai-risk-kill-humans/ 🔗

Jack Wetherill (9 Sep 2026)

Anthropic Alignment Science Lead Evan Hubinger has warned that he believes there is a more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans" within the next decade.

His comments came in response to Jacob Coxon, who announced he had resigned from the company, which is behind Claude, saying neither Anthropic nor OpenAI are "acting responsibly".

Coxon went on to say: "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt."

He added: "These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionise any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources."

In Hubinger's X post, he wrote: "Jacob is correct here – we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade," adding that he believed the risk from models that currently exist was "low" but that he was "worried" about rapid advances and self-improvements within the AI technology.

Hubinger also cast doubt on whether the company has a workable route to controlling more capable systems. "I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to," he wrote.
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