Twenty-seven-year-old British researcher Jacob Coxon, who spent three years working on pretraining artificial intelligence models at OpenAI and Anthropic, announced his departure from the industry. In his resignation post on X, he wrote that neither of the two companies is acting responsibly. Le Monde ↗
Coxon stated that the people developing artificial intelligence seriously believe this technology could kill all of humanity by the end of the decade. According to him, the major AI-developing firms are essentially gambling with human lives, and their conduct is irresponsible.
His former supervisor supported Coxon's decision to leave and estimated that the probability of humanity's extinction by artificial intelligence in the coming years exceeds ten percent. Before his departure, Coxon himself declared that the technology could destroy humanity even before 2030. SITA ↗
Coxon is not the only one voicing such concerns. OpenAI's research director has also admitted to being concerned about the pace of development of increasingly powerful systems. The debate over artificial intelligence safety has intensified in recent months, as companies compete with one another to develop ever more capable models. In this context, critics point to the risk of so-called recursive self-improvement, that is, the ability of artificial intelligence to improve itself without sufficient human oversight, which they say could lead to a loss of control over this technology. Spiegel.de ↗
Researcher left both Anthropic and OpenAI with a warning about humanity's extinction
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Anthropic-Forscher: KI Risiko für Menschen
ORF
| 12:04 09.09.
‘Gambling with our lives’: AI researcher quits Anthropic with dire warning about safety
Politico Europe
| 09:44 09.09.
Drastische Mahnungen: KI-Forscher: Künstliche Intelligenz ein Risiko für Menschen
Die Zeit
| 09:11 09.09.
Un investigador de Anthropic dimite porque asegura que la IA “puede matarnos antes de 2030”
El Pais
| 13:01 09.09.
„Sie spielen mit unserem Leben“ – Anthropic-Forscher kündigt und erhebt schwere Vorwürfe
Welt
| 11:55 09.09.
„Riskují budoucnost lidstva.“ Výzkumník OpenAI a Anthropicu varoval před superinteligencí
novinky.cz
| 10:01 09.09.
« Les gens qui construisent l’IA croient qu’elle pourrait tous nous tuer d’ici à la fin de la décennie » : le chercheur Jacob Coxon, qui a travaillé pour Anthropic et OpenAI, quitte l’industrie
Le Monde
| 09:54 09.09.
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