Lawmakers blast AI companies following researcher raises concern over of human extinction by 2030
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Former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon stated AI is expected to become ‘superhuman systems’ that can cause human extinction by the end of the decade Just a day following three Anthropic researchers raised concerns about that artificial intelligence could kill off humanity within the decade, lawmakers have begun lashing out about the risks of the burgeoning technology. The report also notes that Ted Cruz, a republican senator from Texas, stated in an interview on ABC’s The View, that AI poses a “catastrophic risk” and that he “read that whole tweet thread that that developer put out. It was highly concerning.
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