existential risk

Two Google DeepMind researchers quit, warn AI could ‘kill us all’

Two artificial intelligence researchers have resigned from Google Alphabet Inc. DeepMind within days of each other, each warning that the pace of AI development risks catastrophic consequences for humanity. Their departures add to a growing wave of alarm from inside…

Ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC AI workers are ‘genuinely frightened’ for humanity

Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old former Anthropic researcher, has become the center of an escalating debate over the existential risks of artificial intelligence after his resignation post went viral, amassing over 115 million views on X. Speaking to the BBC's Laura…

Hinton calls 10% chance of AI killing all humans ‘not unreasonable’

Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton told BBC Newsnight on Tuesday that a 10% probability of artificial intelligence killing all humans within the next decade "seems not an unreasonable estimate," a remark that left presenter Victoria Derbyshire visibly stunned on…

Anthropic model projects severe knowledge worker job losses in extreme AI scenario

Anthropic's economics team released an interactive model this week projecting how AI could reshape the U.S. economy through 2030, with its most extreme scenario forecasting 17.9% unemployment among knowledge workers and economy-wide joblessness of 11.9% — levels beyond anything seen…