AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC
Jacob Coxon tells the BBC that there's a strong chance AI could end humanity if the rate of development is not reined in.
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"I believe that if we don't slow down at the current rate of progress, there is a strong chance that we could all die in the immediate future."
— Jacob Coxon , Academic
"Sorry, but asking Jacob about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change."
— Clement Delangue , Executive
"The notion that AI 'is going to be the end of humanity' is complete nonsense."
— Jensen Huang , Executive
Key People
Clement Delangue is the CEO of Hugging Face, a hub for sharing AI models.
Dario Amodei is a co-founder of Anthropic.
Elon Musk is the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla.
An AI researcher who previously worked at Anthropic and OpenAI.
Jensen Huang is the CEO of Nvidia, a leading company in AI and semiconductor technology.
Chief executive officer of OpenAI.
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Jacob Coxon tells the BBC that there's a strong chance AI could end humanity if the rate of development is not reined in.
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