For AI leaders Doom is a form of hype

I am so fed up with doomy statements from the AI leaders. I may have lost my patience with it. The latest instance is the BBC’s report that Evan Hubinger, who leads alignment science at Anthropic, believes there is a “greater than 10% chance” that AI could “kill all humans” within the next decade. The occasion was the resignation of Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old pretraining researcher who had worked ...