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Story: AI Safety Expert: Over 10% Chance of Humanity’s Extinction in Next Decade

By Evie Vavasseur

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What Hubinger Actually Said. Here's the part that matters. Hubinger wasn't throwing Anthropic under the bus.

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New Models, Old Warnings. The timing is uncomfortable. Hubinger and Coxon's warnings landed right around the release of some…

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Ripple's CEO Sees It Differently. Not everyone in the broader crypto and fintech world shares the gloom.

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Evan Hubinger said it plainly. More than a 10% chance. That's his estimate for artificial intelligence wiping out humanity within the next ten years — and he's not some fringe…

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Hubinger made the comments in response to a resignation announcement from Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic researcher who walked out the door with some pointed criticisms aimed…

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So when a guy whose literal job is finding failure modes in AI safety says the odds of extinction-level risk are above one in ten, that's probably worth taking seriously.

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Coxon's exit adds some texture here. He didn't slam the door quietly. He criticized AI labs for not disclosing enough about the risks tied to their research.

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The timing is uncomfortable. Hubinger and Coxon's warnings landed right around the release of some genuinely powerful new systems. On September 3, OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra.

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It's worth stepping back for a second. The AI safety debate isn't new. Researchers have been raising alignment concerns for years, and the industry has basically kept…

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Hubinger's own career path kind of tells the story. He went from engineering work at Ripple — building out the Interledger protocol, practical fintech infrastructure — to…

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Not everyone in the broader crypto and fintech world shares the gloom. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has taken a more optimistic line on AI, saying it could drive growth for the…

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That's a pretty wide gap. On one side, a former Ripple engineer is putting double-digit odds on human extinction. On the other, Ripple's current CEO sees a growth driver.

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Coxon didn't specify what it would take to bring him back to the table, or whether that's even on the cards. He remains hopeful about collaboration but hasn't laid out a roadmap.

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Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 are shipping. GPT-6 Astra is live. The race didn't pause for the warnings.

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