Former Anthropic insider Jacob Coxon is doubling down on his warning that artificial intelligence could become an extinction-level threat to humanity within just a few years — insisting his doomsday prediction is no publicity stunt.
“There is a substantial probability that this technology could kill everyone,” Coxon told NBC News’ Tom Llamas on Wednesday after resigning from the AI giant this week.
“This isn’t hyperbole,” he said. “It’s not a marketing stunt.”
Coxon, who spent three years doing research across Anthropic and OpenAI, has sounded the alarm in a blitz of television interviews following his resignation, arguing that rapidly advancing AI could soon become capable of improving itself with diminishing human involvement.