Multiple current and former Anthropic employees warned — and admitted — on Tuesday that the researchers building new AI models believe the technology could lead to humanity’s destruction by the end of the decade, reflecting the industry’s frenzy over reining in rapid development. Jacob Coxon warned that the ‘people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade’. Key points and original sources are listed below.

• Multiple current and former Anthropic employees warned — and admitted — on Tuesday that the researchers building new AI models believe the technology could lead to humanity’s destruction by the end of the decade, reflecting the industry’s frenzy over reining i...S1

• Jacob Coxon warned that the ‘people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade’.S2