{"slug": "ai-poses-risks-to-national-security-burnham-says-after-anthropic-expert-says-all", "title": "AI poses risks to national security, Burnham says after Anthropic expert says tech ‘could kill all humans’", "summary": "Prime Minister Andy Burnham acknowledged that artificial intelligence poses risks to national security, responding to warnings from Anthropic safety researcher Evan Hubinger, who said he believes there is a greater than 10 percent probability that AI could kill all humans within the next decade. Hubinger's comments followed the resignation of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who said Anthropic and OpenAI are not acting responsibly, and former Cabinet Office minister Darren Jones called for a new multi-national treaty to regulate superintelligence development.", "body_md": "# AI poses risks to national security, Burnham says after Anthropic expert says tech ‘could kill all humans’\n\nThe Prime Minister was questioned in the Commons over the potential hazards of artificial intelligence\n\n- Bookmark\n\n[Andy Burnham](/topic/andy-burnham) has recognised \"risks to national security\" posed by [artificial intelligence](/topic/artificial-intelligence), as a prominent safety researcher at [Anthropic](/topic/anthropic) suggested the technology could destroy humanity over the coming decade.\n\nThe [Prime Minister](/topic/prime-minister) was questioned in the Commons regarding the potential hazards of [AI](/topic/ai) after Evan Hubinger cautioned he believed there was a greater than 10 per cent probability of a species-ending threat within 10 years.\n\nThis follows reports in the *Financial Times* that US firm Anthropic withheld its newest model from the UK’s AI Safety Institute, one of the premier global bodies for evaluating the technology’s risks.\n\nAsked about the report by Liberal Democrat leader Sir [Ed Davey](/topic/ed-davey) during Prime Minister’s Questions, Mr Burnham said: “He is absolutely right that AI poses risks to our national security, but it also could be the source of solutions to keeping us safer.”\n\n“The offer is open to colleagues on all sides of the House to be part of that crucial discussion,” he said.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Mr Hubinger laid out his concerns about the potential advancement of AI in a post on social media.\n\n“We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. 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 on X.\n\nHis post came in response to another Anthropic researcher, Jacob Coxon, warning that a race between companies towards self-improving superintelligence was “gambling with our lives”, as he resigned from his role at the firm.\n\nAnnouncing his departure, Mr Coxon said that Anthropic and [OpenAI](/topic/openai), its main competitor, were not “acting responsibly” and that people outside of AI labs were underestimating the power of the technology.\n\n“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 said.\n\n“No other human activity poses this level of danger.”\n\nFormer Cabinet Office minister Darren Jones called for a new multi-national treaty to regulate the development of the technology after the researchers’ warnings.\n\nIn a letter to the Prime Minister, UN secretary general Antonio Guterres and OECD secretary general Mathias Cormann, he wrote: “The debate ranges from the end of humanity to claims of ‘marketing hype’ pre-IPO. Either way, governments must now step in.\n\n“We need a new multi-national treaty for the regulated and safe development of superintelligence.\n\n“Not a ban on innovation or scientific endeavour, but a safety first approach to the rapid development of this technology.”\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesperson said: “The UK is a world leader in AI security and we have the best-funded, best-resourced security institute globally.\n\n“The AI Security Institute continues to collaborate closely with industry partners, including Anthropic, to make models safer. Only last week it tested OpenAI’s most powerful model GPT-6 Astra before public release.\n\n“These risks do not stop at national borders and no country can tackle them alone. The UK will continue to test the most advanced models, build a rigorous scientific understanding of their capabilities and risks, and ensure policy decisions are grounded in the evidence.”", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-poses-risks-to-national-security-burnham-says-after-anthropic-expert-says-all", "canonical_source": "https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/burnham-ai-anthropic-evan-hubinger-post-b3047587.html", "published_at": "2026-09-09 22:25:36+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-09 22:47:11.971408+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-safety", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Andy Burnham", "Anthropic", "Evan Hubinger", "Jacob Coxon", "OpenAI", "Darren Jones", "Antonio Guterres", "Mathias Cormann"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-poses-risks-to-national-security-burnham-says-after-anthropic-expert-says-all", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-poses-risks-to-national-security-burnham-says-after-anthropic-expert-says-all.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-poses-risks-to-national-security-burnham-says-after-anthropic-expert-says-all.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-poses-risks-to-national-security-burnham-says-after-anthropic-expert-says-all.jsonld"}}