Earlier this month, disillusioned Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon publicly announced he was quitting his job, accusing both his employer and OpenAI of acting irresponsibly.
His departure and harrowing warning that there’s a more than ten percent chance of AI “killing all humans” was met with breathless media coverage. While he’s far from the first AI insider to warn that humanity is in grave danger, the timing was particularly noteworthy. The public was already primed to expect the worst after a summer chock full of rogue AI models going on hacking sprees and infiltrating third party companies without their human creators’ knowledge.
But not everybody’s convinced that our days as a species on Earth are counted. For one: chipmaker Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang — the man who’s effectively selling shovels during the ongoing AI gold rush — is pleading for a more rational and grounded discussion.
“2030 is not going to be the end of the world,” he told CBS News, responding to Coxon’s claims. “There is zero chance chance that’s going to be the end of the world.”
