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The Real Dangers of AI: What the Evidence Says in 2026 The most common fear about AI is job displacement, with a median of 55% of adults in high-income countries expecting AI to reduce jobs in the next 20 years. Deepfakes, privacy loss, and algorithmic bias are evidence-based near-term harms. Existential risk remains debated among … Read more
Will AI Replace Humans? Separating Fear From Reality AI is replacing specific tasks and some jobs, not humans as a species—at least not in the near term. Expert surveys show a median 5–10% probability of catastrophic outcomes from advanced AI, with estimates ranging from 0.01% (Yann LeCun) to over 10% (Geoffrey Hinton, Evan Hubinger). The … Read more
Jacob Coxon’s Anthropic Resignation: What He Really Said About AI Risk Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old pretraining researcher, resigned from Anthropic on September 9, 2026, warning that AI companies “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” His claims were publicly confirmed by Evan Hubinger, Anthropic’s Alignment Science Lead, who … Read more
Why an AI Researcher Just Quit, Warning “AI Could Kill Us All” Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old researcher at Anthropic, resigned in September 2026 after publicly warning that AI companies “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” His claims were confirmed by Anthropic’s own Alignment Science lead, who stated … Read more
Who Is Jacob Coxon? Jacob Coxon is a 27-year-old British AI researcher who resigned from Anthropic in September 2026, warning that the companies building advanced artificial intelligence “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” He spent three years conducting pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic before leaving … Read more