Experts weigh in as researcher says AI has more than 10% chance of 'killing all humans'
- ID
- 22653
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 10 Sep 2026, 1:43 AM
- Fetched
- 10 Sep 2026, 2:11 AM
- Provider
- CNBC Technology
- Category
- technology
- Original URL
- https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/09/anthropic-researcher-quits-ai-safety.html
- Source URL
- https://www.cnbc.com/id/19854910/device/rss/rss.html
Summary
- Score
- 3.0
- Created
- 10 Sep 2026, 2:11 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- ai_ml_learnerssaas_startup_founders
What happened
Anthropic safety researcher Evan Hubinger stated there is a greater than 10% chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade. Another Anthropic researcher, Jacob Coxon, announced his resignation, accusing Anthropic and OpenAI of racing toward self-improving superintelligence without adequate safeguards.
Why it matters
This is existential-risk commentary, not actionable guidance for builders. There is no tool, policy, price, or technical detail here that changes what you should ship or decide this week. The only practical signal is that internal safety tension at a leading lab is spilling into public resignations, which may hint at governance pressure to come, but nothing concrete enough to act on now.
Discussion angle
Whether public resignations and doom-probability claims from inside leading labs should change how founders and developers weigh dependency on Anthropic or OpenAI APIs, or whether this is noise that doesn't affect day-to-day building.