What’s behind the AI industry’s latest warnings of doom?

On Equity, we discussed the AI industry’s latest debate about whether it poses an existential threat to humanity.

The AI industry seems to be having its loudest debate yet about whether its technology poses an existential threat to humanity.

The current discussion began after AI researcher Jacob Coxon said that he’s resigned from Anthropic because he’s worried that the leading AI companies are “gambling with our lives.” Then Anthropic’s alignment lead chimed in with a post declaring, “We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!” adding that he personally thinks the chance is “>10% within the next decade.”