Lawmakers blast AI companies after researcher warns of human extinction by 2030
TL;DR
Former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon said AI will become ‘superhuman systems’ that can cause human extinction by the end of the decade Just a day after three Anthropic researchers warned that artificial intelligence could kill off humanity within the decade, lawmakers have begun lashing out about the risks of the burgeoning technology. Ted Cruz, a republican senator from Texas, said in an interview on ABC’s The View, that AI poses a “catastrophic risk” and that he “read that whole tweet thread that that developer put out.
Nauti's Take
The 2030 timeline is a personal forecast, not a reliable schedule. Small teams should start with a practical test: which actions may an AI agent take autonomously, how are they logged, and can a human immediately stop access, data leakage, and external changes?
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