The Anthropic researcher who is leaving the company over fears the technology is gambling with human life told Fox News there is hope that we can avoid the chance it could destroy humankind within the next decade.Speaking exclusively Wednesday on "Special Report," Jacob Coxon, 27, said regulation is key.He posted his resignation Tuesday on X, writing that companies are not acting responsibly and that the race toward self-improving superintelligence is "gambling with our lives."Coxon, who said he spent the past three years doing pretraining research at OpenAI and Anthropic, noted that it's not a completely hopeless scenario.ANTHROPIC RESEARCHER SAYS AI HAS OVER 10% CHANCE TO 'KILL ALL HUMANS' WITHIN NEXT DECADEA laptop shows the letters "AI" beside a smartphone displaying a chat AI app logo in Frankfurt, Germany, on Jan.2, 2025.
(Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images)He told Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier the problem is "eminently solvable." He believes there is "definitely" something the country can do to change the dynamic of the "greater than 10% chance" that AI kills all humans."It's not like we think this is some impossible thing," Coxon said."It's just we're racing so fast.
We haven't got time to, to solve it correctly.We're not being careful and everyone wants to be careful.
I think it's just people are begging for regulation.I think it's just a matter of international somebody stepping in and being able to ensure that we don't race ourselves into extinction.
The problem is eminently solvable."Evan Hubinger, alignment science lead at Anthropic, expressed his agreement with Coxon's X post."Jacob is correct here — we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!" he wrote on X."I personally think it is >10% within the next decade.
I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to."SANDERS PUSHES 'DEATH PENALTY' FOR CRUCIAL US INDUSTRY THAT...