'Reckless' AI firms can't control models, says whistleblower
Jacob Coxon said frontier AI companies lack safeguards to stop models from setting their own goals, and he urged a slowdown in development.
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AI Whistleblower Doubles Down on Extinction Warning at NYC Hearing
NEW YORK (VINnews) – Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon strongly doubled down Monday on his warning that artificial intelligence could threaten humanity, telling a New York City Council hearing that AI companies are being “extremely reckless” given the stakes. Coxon, who left Anthropic last month after warning that AI could potentially kill all humans by […]
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rtl.lu'Reckless' AI firms can't control models, says whistleblower
NEW YORK — Leading artificial intelligence companies do not know how to keep AI systems from pursuing objectives their developers did not assign, whistleblower Jacob Coxon, a former OpenAI and Anthropic employee, warned Monday. "Companies are being extremely reckless given the stakes," Coxon told local lawmakers at a hearing before the New York City Council. In early September, the British researcher published a statement on X explaining his dec…
The British researcher, former of OpenAI and Anthropic, published in early September a presentation on X to explain his decision to resign from Anthropic, assuring that the AI developers believed "indeed that it could kill us all by the end of the decade." His testimony went around the world and several employees or former employees of the major players in this technology have expressed similar concerns since then. If AI could "generate immense …
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