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Wed, 09 Sep 2026 Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'

It is the latest in a series of increasing warnings about the safety threat posed by artificial intelligence.

* Evan Hubinger, a top safety researcher at Anthropic, believes there's a greater than 10% chance that AI could "kill all humans" within the next decade.
* He warned that current models pose a low risk of harm, but fears that future models may develop and improve themselves to an existential level.
* Anthropic withheld its latest model from the UK's AI Safety Institute (AISI), one of the leading bodies for assessing AI risk.
* A former employee of Anthropic claimed that both Anthropic and OpenAI are not acting responsibly with their AI technology, which could lead to superhuman systems that can hack anything and revolutionize any field overnight.
* A professor at the University of Cambridge said that the report is credible and that the US government's approach to AI may be contributing to the risk of uncontrolled development.
* Hubinger works in AI alignment, which aims to build human ethical ideas and principles into the technology, but admits that they do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence.