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AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC
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In Short: Former Anthropic employee tells BBC that AI advancements could lead to human extinction, citing recent security incidents.
Former Anthropic employee told the BBC that AI researchers are 'genuinely frightened' about the speed of advancements and their potential impact on humanity, warning of a possibility of human extinction.
He stated, 'I believe that if we don't slow down at the current rate of progress, there is a strong chance that we could all die in the immediate future.
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- On X, Mullenweg also posted that “Things are different than they appear,” and said he was in need of sysadmins and security researchers to help him move some of his stuff hosted at Automattic elsewhere, even though he supported Davies as CEO.
- Earlier this year, Rishub Jain left his position as an artificial intelligence researcher at Google DeepMind after a revelation.
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- Genuinely stunning advances in AI capabilities—an OpenAI model solved a centuries-old math problem in a matter of hours—have come amid a rash of security incidents that saw swarms of agents break free from containment to hack into other systems.