Jacob Coxon is not alone: AI Superintelligence is an Existential Threat to Humanity Recently, Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at Anthropic and OpenAI, sent shockwaves throughout the world by stating, “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Incredibly, in less than 48 hours, Mr. Coxon’s social media statement has been viewed by more than 150 million people. But let’s be clear: Mr. Coxon is not alone in his fears. Leading experts inside and outside the AI industry have been echoing Mr. Coxon’s clarion call for years. And that is that unless we reverse course, there is a very real possibility that once advanced AI surpasses human intelligence, it could escape our control with catastrophic consequences. In other words, advanced AI and superintelligence pose an existential threat to humanity. That is why I will soon be introducing legislation with Representative @RepCasar to pause advanced AI and ban superintelligence altogether. Please take a moment to read what just a few of these experts have said in the past few days. Thanks to @TaylorPopielarz for assembling this research. Paul Christiano, Member of the OpenAI nonprofit board’s Safety and Security Committee: "Based on the recent trajectory of capabilities and the continued difficulty of alignment, I now believe there is a meaningful risk that rapid acceleration in AI capabilities leads to catastrophic and irreversible loss of control in the very near term. I do not think that the AI industry in general, including OpenAI, is currently on track to reduce this risk to an acceptable level … If we build superintelligence without more robust alignment I expect we will permanently lose control of it. If that happens then most people could die. I believe we would need domestic and international coordination to ensure global consistency and reduce risk to an acceptable level.” Samuel Marks, Scalable Oversight lead at Anthropic: "AI developers believe their technology could cause human extinction (or similarly bad outcomes). This could happen in the next few years.” Evan Hubinger, Alignment Science lead at Anthropic: "Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!” Alex Turner, former Research Scientist at Google DeepMind: "I left Google DeepMind in June. Jacob is right: many researchers believe they are building something that could kill everyone on the planet. It was literally my day job to think about how to stop that." Jakub Pachocki, Chief Scientist at OpenAI: "This is a time that calls for extreme caution. I am concerned no one is prepared for the consequences of a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence.” Jason Wolfe, Researcher at OpenAI: "I don't know what my probabilities are on literal extinction, but I think there are a number of ways AI could go poorly for humanity, and at the current frankly terrifying pace humanity will be quite lucky if we manage to find and stay on the narrow path between all the bad outcomes. Jonathan Richard Schwarz, former Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind: "I left DeepMind after 7 years (and since rejected offers to join the other two) due to severe concerns about the concentration of power these labs represent. What is currently happening in this field is deeply unhealthy for society.”

BREAKING: Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigns, warning that AI systems will soon be able to hack anything and that the company is racing toward superintelligence that could kill us all by the end of the decade.

Trump has been a Russian asset since at least 1987, when the KGB recruited him on his first trip to the then Soviet Union. The KGB arranged the all expenses paid trip to Moscow, dangling the carrot of a Trump Tower in the Russian capital. Notably: A Trump Tower in Moscow never happened.

We’ve been over this before: Every Global 7500 that Bombardier builds in 🇨🇦 has 2 GE engines built in Indiana, 🇺🇸. Every Challenger that Bombardier builds in 🇨🇦 has 2 Honeywell engines built in Arizona. 🇺🇸. Bombardier employs 3,000+ 🇺🇸s & has 2,800 🇺🇸 suppliers. Not so smart.

Alice Weidel becomes the first leader in the world who is anti-immigration but has an immigrant wife, is anti-LGBTQ+ but is a lesbian herself, opposes LGBT adoption but has adopted two children, and is a hardcore German nationalist but lives in Switzerland

"Con esta orden ejecutiva que he firmado, ahora ya podrás disparar contra los lobos grises mexicanos". Trump firmó hoy una orden para disparar contra el lobo gris mexicano, una especie en crítico peligro de extinción, apenas quedan 317 vagando por Arizona y Nuevo México. El lobo mexicano gris fue declarado extinto en su hábitat silvestre alrededor de 1980, después de que los humanos lo cazaran y lo envenenaran masivamente... solo quedaron unos pocos ejemplares, apenas 7 fueron rescatados en refugios antes de ser exterminados para siempre y así se consiguió reiniciar la reproducción de esta especie. Ahora Trump quiere volver a exterminar a estos lobos que fueron salvados de milagro de la desaparición en los 80... es de locos lo de este criminal, todo lo que toca es para hacer daño.

🇺🇸Trump: "We want to have good relationships with Russia" 🇺🇸Reporter: "Russia is not our ally" 🇺🇸Trump: "They are, Putin is my friend" 🇺🇸Reporter: "What about Canada, they stood with us for decades" 🇺🇸Trump: "They are nasty people" 🇺🇸Reporter: "So now Russians are good and Canadians are nasty?" 🇺🇸Trump: "Yes, next question please" 🇵🇱 Polish PM Tusk was absolutely right that Trump is Moscow's asset

Elon Musk documentary, ‘Musk,’ contends that his four-month stint in Washington last year did more than gleefully ax 270,000 federal employees and untold billions in life-saving aid. Director Alex Gibney suggests that Musk also had access to and potentially collected intimate data on tens of millions of Americans possibly even for later political use. Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel-prize-winning godfather of AI, offers a specific use case: leveraging the data into an unfair campaign advantage. “It’s fairly clear to me that Trump is hell-bent on corrupting the midterm elections,” he says onscreen. “If you wanted to corrupt those midterm elections and you wanted to use AI, all you needed to do was get detailed information on U.S. citizens. And what DOGE did looked like just what you would do.” Read the exclusive THR cover story on ‘Musk’: bit.ly/4qSLyuX

BREAKING: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Footage showed helicopters evacuating injured US soldiers in Jordan, following Iranian ballistic missile strikes. Iran claims it killed "a large number of American forces" at the US Marine Camp Titin base in Jordan

We are dealing with some seriously twisted people. From a Canadian perspective, I have to say: this is not normal. Look at what is being put out through official U.S. government channels. One picture was posted by the White House. Another came from the U.S. Department of the Interior press. These aren’t random people on the internet. These are official institutions of the United States government, speaking to the world on behalf of the American state. And as a Canadian, I find that deeply disturbing. Because the whole world is watching this. Not just Canadians. Not just Americans. All of us. People around the world are watching how the United States chooses to use its enormous political power, its influence, and its institutions. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen another country engage in this kind of openly vindictive rhetoric in quite this way. Not Russia. Not China. Not even North Korea. For generations, Canadians have looked to the United States as our closest neighbour, our largest trading partner, and one of the world’s most influential democracies. We may disagree with American governments, and Canadians certainly have plenty of opinions about American politics, but there has always been an expectation that, beneath the political battles, there was a certain standard of conduct. This feels like something different. There is a difference between defending your country and taking pleasure in humiliating someone. There is a difference between strong rhetoric and rhetoric that appears designed specifically to hurt, provoke, and degrade. There is a difference between protecting your own country and wanting to tear down another for no reason. It wasn’t enough to drive in the knife; they had to twist it too. And from outside the United States, it is difficult to watch this and understand how anyone can consider it appropriate for a government to behave this way. This isn’t about being Canadian versus American. It isn’t about left versus right. It isn’t even about whether you agree with the person being targeted. It’s about standards. If a foreign government behaved this way, many of the same people would be outraged. They would call it cruel, undignified, or authoritarian, and rightfully so. Canada and the United States have had disagreements for generations. We have argued over trade, foreign policy, borders, energy, defence, and countless other issues. But disagreement between neighbours does not require contempt for one another. In fact, precisely because Canada and the United States are so closely connected, what happens there matters enormously to us. Anybody who thinks this is acceptable behaviour simply because it is coming from “their side” has lost the plot. Because governments are supposed to represent more than anger, vengeance, and political tribalism.They are supposed to represent their people. And I would hope that Americans, regardless of their political beliefs, can still recognize the difference between strength and cruelty. The whole world is watching. And what they are seeing is not strength. It’s something much uglier. Source: Canadian United