US legislators push AI safety laws amid human extinction warnings

Current and former artificial intelligence researchers in the United States have issued dire warnings that the technology could soon lead to human extinction, capturing the attention of lawmakers in Washington.The most recent warning came in a lengthy social media post by Jacob Coxon, a San Francisco-based researcher who announced his resignation from Anthropic on Tuesday evening.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4US pushes looser approach to AI regulation, while EU pushes new lawlist 2 of 4OpenAI unveils latest AI model amid rising scrutiny and safety concernslist 3 of 4AI researcher quits Anthropic saying AI race ‘could kill us all’list 4 of 4Anthropic discloses 4th AI hacking incident as researcher quits over safetyend of list“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible – but I hear the same people express fear,” Coxon said in his post, which prompted a flurry of responses by AI experts also sounding the alarm.Evan Hubinger, a current Alignment Science lead at Anthropic, echoed his ...