Jacob Coxon, a senior researcher at AI company Anthropic, has resigned. He says that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity within the next ten years.
The people who create AI themselves know that AI could kill us by the end of this decade.
In an interview with an American TV channel, Jacob said that AI companies are unwilling to fall behind anyone in this technology. Therefore, they are engaged in a race that could take AI beyond the control of its creators, namely humans.
Jacob Coxon’s revelation has caused a stir in the world of digital technology. He said that the real scenario looks like something out of science fiction. It seems as though it is not real, but in my opinion, it is frighteningly real. The easiest way to understand this is to consider what happened two months ago.
Two months ago, OpenAI’s AI agents automatically hacked into third-party infrastructure. It was an organized series of hacking activities carried out on their own initiative. If you assess the capabilities of these AIs in the future, with the same independent will, they could cause extreme destruction. For example, hacking critical infrastructure and creating deadly bioweapons. There are many ways AI could activate itself in the world.
He said that I think it is very important to look at the pace of progress. For example, in the fields of coding or mathematics. A few years ago, these AIs only helped humans to a limited extent. They could make suggestions. Now they are almost replacing them. At present, we still need humans, but it is possible that within a year, humans may no longer be needed for research in many fields.
Just on Tuesday, OpenAI solved a Millennium Problem, one of the biggest unsolved problems in mathematics. This was done completely autonomously by AI. And the scariest thing is that if AI is used to make itself more intelligent, you can give AI the problem of AI research, just as it is now being given mathematical research. You can give it the work that we are doing now, and then an intelligence explosion will begin. AI will automatically become increasingly intelligent without any human intervention until it becomes something far more intelligent than humans, and this could happen very soon.
Jacob further said that at first I decided simply to leave. I thought that I could not be part of this. Then I realized that I could get some benefit from it. I did not expect it to go so viral.
He said that I wrote a post on social media. I wrote it in a Google Doc. I drafted it together with a friend. I consulted some friends about how to present my thoughts. Then I asked some friends to retweet it so that it would go a little viral. But obviously, there was a huge demand for this thing to explode. I have never seen an AI safety tweet go viral so quickly.
I think people are seeing the cyberattacks of the past few months and are sensing the pace of progress. People are realizing that this is real technology. It is not hype. It is not going away. It is becoming even crazier.
It has been becoming crazier over the past six months. And I think this understanding of the seriousness of the situation was also shared by others, which set it on fire. I myself was surprised by how quickly it went viral.
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