Evan Hubinger, former Ripple engineer and current Anthropic researcher, estimates a greater than 10% chance that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity within the next decade. He responded to Jacob Coxon, former Anthropic researcher who resigned after accusing the industry’s leading laboratories of racing toward self-improving superintelligence without adequate safeguards. Coxon stated that neither OpenAI nor Anthropic is acting responsibly and that major labs are not properly disclosing AI-related risks to the public. These warnings come days after OpenAI unveiled GPT-6 Astra on September 3 and Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, its most advanced models for coding and scientific research. Hubinger previously worked as a software engineering intern at Ripple between 2014 and 2015, contributing to the early design of Interledger, a protocol enabling payments across different ledgers and currencies.
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