Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned in a post that drew more than 171 million views on X, warning that labs are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our live…
Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger said he and colleagues "really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans," putting the odds at more than 10 percent within the next decade, after former Anthropi…
Anthropic and OpenAI are pushing for US government intervention on AI safety grounds as a way to protect their market position, according to an opinion piece in The Register. The piece cites Anthropic…
Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old AI researcher, resigned from Anthropic after roughly three years of pretraining AI models, warning that AI companies are racing toward self-improving superintelligence and "…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI CEO Elon Musk called over the weekend for a pause in AI development, warning the technology could soon improve on its own and slip beyond huma…
House Democrats are calling on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to cancel recess and legislate on AI safety after former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said AI "could kill us by the end of the decade," w…
Anthropic "science alignment lead" Evan Hubinger posted on X that he puts the odds at better than 10% that AI could kill all humans within the next decade, a claim that followed colleague Jacob Coxon …
Bilal Chughtai, a former research engineer at Google DeepMind, publicly warned on Monday that AI could kill all humans, after resigning in July 2026 from his work on AGI safety and alignment research.…
Former Google DeepMind research engineer Bilal Chughtai said on X that he "earnestly believe[s] that AI has the potential to kill us all, and that we might be running out of time to avoid this outcome…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling for a collective slowdown in AI development, writing that "we must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models" so risk preven…
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic on September 9, 2026, and four days later told NBC News that kill switches built into advanced AI systems may already be obsolete because future distributed, swarm-…
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman unveiled a code of conduct Monday steering Microsoft toward a "humanist" AI approach and called for top AI labs to coordinate on safety, saying "Now's the time for co…
The UK government under Prime Minister Andy Burnham has rejected parliamentary proposals for a statutory AI kill switch and a ban on superintelligent AI, opting instead for voluntary pre-release testi…
President Donald Trump said Sunday that AI development will be "more good than bad, but by a lot," pushing back days after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a blanket slowdown in AI development to…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an X post around 12:57 am ET that AI progress could go badly in two ways — losing control of the future to AI and too much concentration of power — and that avoiding both…
Former Anthropic and OpenAI pretraining researcher Jacob Kahn resigned from Anthropic and posted on X on September 8 that both companies are racing toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic alignment researcher Evan Hubinger, Elon Musk and Bill Gates have publicly agreed that frontier AI development needs to be paced, with Altm…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon both warned that AI capabilities could become "quite scary" within 6–12 months, citing recursive self-improvement and …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on Saturday calling on the AI industry to slow development of the most advanced models, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman agreed with him in a post on X. The call…
Anthropic alignment researcher Evan Hubinger said he assigns a probability above 10% to human extinction caused by AI within the next decade, following the September 2026 resignation of Jacob Coxon, a…