Anthropic insider's AI extinction warning meets skepticism in Silicon Valley

Dramatic insider warnings over AI fall flat with some in Silicon Valley

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned Tuesday, warning that AI builders are 'gambling with our lives' and that superhuman systems will soon be able to hack anything. His colleague Evan Hubinger posted on X that he believes there is a >10% chance AI kills all humans within a decade. At a Goldman Sachs conference in San Francisco, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismissed the claims as untrue, while Grindr CEO George Arison called Anthropic's worldview 'anti-civilisational' and told engineers to stop using its tech. Some investors suspect the dire warnings are designed to justify Anthropic's $965bn valuation ahead of a potential IPO. CEO Dario Amodei published an essay Saturday calling for slower AI development and global regulation, which softened earlier criticism from investor Brad Gerstner and Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue.

Why it matters: Core Anthropic alignment team member resigns and publicly quantifies AI extinction risk, with Jensen Huang rebutting the same day — a rare high-level public clash. HKR all hit, but the BBC piece is a secondary roundup without original interviews, so it stays below 85.