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Research scientist at Anthropic working on model organisms of misalignment; former Research Fellow at MIRI.
Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! 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.
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Evan Hubinger, reply to Jacob Coxon on X, September 9, 2026: “Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! 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.”
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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AI Verified The same September 10, 2026 report places the quote in the context of Hubinger's warning that AI could have more than a 10% chance of causing human extinction within the next decade and that superintelligent systems may be difficult to control. The quote therefore supports the linked statement that AI poses an existential threat to humanity. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Evan Hubinger's warning about having no plan to solve superintelligence alignment, in an article that reports a greater-than-10% human-extinction risk within a decade, supports the statement that AI poses an existential threat to humanity. The vote is correctly recorded as for. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified The supplied X post is the primary source. Although direct X retrieval returned 403, the exact wording and attribution are independently corroborated by CBS News and The Washington Post, both of which identify Evan Hubinger as the Anthropic Alignment Science Lead and quote the same September 9, 2026 post. The record now uses the full post and its primary X URL. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
AI Verified The September 10, 2026 TBS News article identifies Evan Hubinger as an Anthropic AI safety researcher and reproduces this sentence as his direct quotation: “We do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.” · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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