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In Short: AI chatbot Claude, developed by Anthropic, is experiencing technical issues and a senior researcher warns of potential existential risks.
Claude, the AI chatbot developed by Anthropic, is currently facing technical issues, according to reports from The Verge. The outage has affected not only Claude but also other AI services, including Grok and ChatGPT, as noted by MacRumors.
In a recent development, a top safety researcher at Anthropic, Evan Hubinger, expressed concerns about the rapid advancement of AI technology. Hubinger, in a post on X, stated that the risk from existing models is currently low but warned that the technology might soon develop to the point where it poses an existential risk to humanity.
Coxon's resignation was not the only incident involving Anthropic. The company has also taken steps to block scientists who used its Claude models for activities that could support biological weapons development, as reported by CBS News. This move highlights the growing concerns around the ethical use of AI technology.
The situation with Claude is not isolated; other AI chatbots are also experiencing issues. According to MacRumors, ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok are all down or experiencing problems for many users. This widespread outage has raised questions about the reliability and safety of AI systems.
What's confirmed
- "These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionise any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources." Dame Wendy Hall, a computer scientist who advises the UN on AI, told the BBC she was "shocked" by Hubinger and Coxon's social media posts.
What's still developing
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- Meanwhile, Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, Claude Code, and the Claude API went down around the same time, with technical staff member CJ Avilla saying an “infrastructure issue” caused a partial outage across its services.
- Separately, Anthropic said this week that it blocked scientists who used its Claude models "in ways that could support biological weapons development," a revelation the company shared in a lengthy report that also divulged other harmful activity involving surveillance, scams, conventional weapons development and propaganda.
- "It really is just, if you have a super advanced intelligence, it could, it will be smart enough to kill us." Coxon publicly resigned from Anthropic, the maker of AI app Claude, on Tuesday, accusing the company and rival developer and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI of "gambling with our lives" by racing to develop advanced AI models.
- "Like, you can kind of connect it to your light bulb." "Now, imagine the AI refuses to turn on your light," Coxon added.
- Anthropic makes the AI tool Claude, which is used as a chatbot and as a tool to help coding A top safety researcher at Anthropic has warned AI is advancing so quickly he believes there is a greater than 10% chance it "could kill all humans" within the next decade.
- Coxon was a senior researcher at Anthropic, the company behind Claude, which describes itself as an 'AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems'.
- Likewise, Anthropic's status page indicates Claude is experiencing elevated errors.