Former Ripple Engineer Warns AI Could Wipe Out Humanity Within 10 Years
TL;DR
- Evan Hubinger estimates that AI has a greater than 10% chance of causing human extinction within the next decade.
- The Anthropic alignment researcher says the industry still lacks a clear solution for safely controlling future superintelligent systems.
- Hubinger’s previous work at Ripple and Interledger connects the debate to crypto, where decentralized infrastructure could provide stronger transparency and verification for increasingly autonomous technologies.
AI has moved from a productivity tool to a technology capable of reshaping entire industries, but concerns about its long-term safety are becoming harder to ignore. Evan Hubinger, an Alignment Science Lead at Anthropic and former Ripple engineering intern, estimates that AI has a greater than 10% chance of causing human extinction within the next decade.
Hubinger made the assessment on X while responding to Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic researcher who resigned after arguing that leading AI laboratories are moving too quickly toward self-improving systems. Hubinger said Anthropic is working to address the problem, but acknowledged that researchers still lack a clear solution for aligning superintelligent systems with human interests.
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