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Policy2026-09-14 · source-backed
His September 13 post responds to ex-Anthropic engineer Jacob Coxon and Alignment Science lead Evan Hubinger putting the odds AI kills all humans above 10% within the decade. His technical objection is that intelligence alone doesn't confer capability: the critical-infrastructure and bioweapon scenarios require physical agency current robotics can't supply. 232 points, 156 comments.
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"The Extinction Risk Preference Cascade: Quotes" collects same-day statements from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind staff. Anthropic's Evan Hubinger and Dima Krasheninnikov and DeepMind's Victoria Krakovna each put extinction above 10% within a decade; OpenAI's Marcus Wil...
Jacob Coxon, 27, who spent three years building models at OpenAI and then Anthropic, resigned September 8, writing that both companies "are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." He said he joined Anthropic for its safety reputation a...
An r/ClaudeAI post (159 upvotes) reports Projects changed its default to running in the cloud, cutting off local filesystem access and, confusingly, internet access for existing project workflows. A barely-documented "Run on computer only" toggle restores it, but you can no lo...
arXiv 2609.09553 shows cipher-based covert-communication jailbreaks no longer need fine-tuning on an encrypted corpus. In-context learning is enough, and alignment is significantly weakened or bypassed once the exchange runs through the learned encoding. Demonstrated against m...
Two agent shapes: a shopping agent doing catalog search, multi-item assembly and cart management with guardrails against manipulative upselling, and a merchant agent doing analytics, inventory alerts and dynamic pricing behind human approval. Deployable via the Claude API, Bed...
A US official told the AP that during Project Glasswing testing with intelligence agencies, Anthropic's gated Mythos model found vulnerabilities in classified systems "not in weeks but in hours." Sen. Mark Warner aired the claim at a June 11 Senate Banking hearing. (CNN Busine...
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