AI Developers Sound Alarms & Did We Know 9/11 Would Happen? | 9.14.26

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Leaders in AI come forward to call for regulation on its development over the urgent threat they say it poses to the world.

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It sounds like something that's not real, but I think it is frighteningly real. Are the warnings merited, just a marketing scheme, or a political play?

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And the CIA releases a trove of presidential briefings leading up to 9-11. What warning signs were missed, and are we now better prepared?

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As public concerns over the dangers posed by AI grow, some industry leaders are now calling for new guardrails.

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Wired in host Cabot Phillips is here now with more.

So, Cabot, we had a very viral X-thread that got a lot of people talking last week. Now we're seeing some renewed calls for regulation, including from some industry leaders themselves, which is very unusual. What's the latest?

Cabot Phillips (2:59)

Yeah, more and more AI experts this week are going public with a very scary message. They're saying this stuff is getting out of hand and there is a real chance it could have catastrophic consequences. First, over the summer, there was the hugging face incident. That's where rogue open AI agents broke out of an isolated test area, secured access to the Internet, and then launched an enormous unauthorized cyber attack on a competitor. That grabbed headlines, but the real turning point came last week when Jacob Coxson, a researcher with Anthropic and OpenAI, publicly quit his job giving up equity in the company, and then issued a statement saying AI companies, including his own, are, quote, gambling with our lives. He then offered this chilling warning, quote, this is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will blout their phrasing in the press to sound sensible, but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.

And if you think that he is potentially exaggerating for clicks, listen to this response from a high ranking data scientist still employed by Anthropic, quote, Jacob is correct here. We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans. I personally think it is a better than 10% chance within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for super intelligence and are not clearly on track to.

Elsewhere, the company's current scalable oversight lead, that's another scientist there, said, quote, AI developers believe their technology could cause human extinction. This could happen in the next few years. In general, the more senior the employee, the more concerned they are. Again, that is a current Anthropic employee.