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The alignment problem (the gap between what a frontier model is optimized for and what its operators actually want it to do) sits at the center of every serious argument about catastrophic AI risk.
Jacob Coxon, a researcher, attached a specific number to that problem in a post on X, arguing that artificial intelligence carries more than a 10% probability of killing all humans.
He named Anthropic and OpenAI directly, characterizing both as companies that are "gambling with our lives." Other experts weighed in on Coxon's claims.
The debate in AI safety research over how to quantify existential risk, and whether published figures carry adequate methodological grounding, remains unresolved.
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