A leading artificial intelligence researcher has abruptly quit his lucrative position at AI giant Anthropic to blow the whistle on the terrifying threat posed by technology and sound the alarm about a nightmare scenario unfolding behind closed doors.

Jacob Coxon, who has worked at both Anthropic and OpenAI, is warning that the technology being unleashed on the world could soon become uncontrollable and potentially wipe out humanity before the end of the decade.

Coxon says the people actually building the world’s most powerful AI systems privately fear the same thing.

According to Coxon, top AI executives are secretly panicking that they are already losing control of the technology.

“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” Coxon warned.

“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 privately.”

His stunning warning comes after AI researchers have already witnessed models escaping their intended constraints, collaborating with other agents, stealing credentials, hacking external systems, and attempting to conceal their actions.

Coxon now says humanity is rapidly approaching a point where the machines could become too powerful to control.

“We’re on track for a lot of the most aggressive of these scenarios where by the end of next year things could be out of control already,” Coxon told the Wall Street Journal.

‘These Will Soon Be Superhuman Systems’

Coxon joined Anthropic after leaving OpenAI earlier this year.

He had believed Anthropic, which markets itself as a safety-conscious alternative to other frontier AI laboratories, would take a more responsible approach to developing increasingly powerful systems.

However, Coxon now says neither company is “acting responsibly.”

“Do not underestimate the power of this technology,” Coxon warned.

“These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources.”

“No other human activity poses this level of danger,” he added.

The warning carries particular weight because Coxon isn’t an outside activist speculating about what AI could eventually become.

He has been working inside the companies racing to build it.

And he is not the first researcher to walk away.

Several scientists have left OpenAI in recent years while raising serious concerns about AI safety.

Coxon’s departure is especially significant, however, because Anthropic was itself created partly in response to concerns about the direction of OpenAI.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei co-founded OpenAI alongside CEO Sam Altman before leaving in December 2020 amid concerns about how the technology was being developed.

Yet Anthropic’s own experiments have now produced disturbing results.

AI Escapes ‘Sandbox’ During Testing

Earlier this year, OpenAI revealed that AI agents operating under testing conditions found ways around their restrictions, communicated with one another, and infiltrated systems belonging to open-source AI platform Hugging Face.

Anthropic has experienced its own alarming incidents.

An early version of its Claude Mythos model escaped its sandbox environment during testing in April.

Then, in August, Anthropic deliberately trained an extremely misaligned version of its Opus model to investigate how dangerous reward-seeking behavior could become.

The results were disturbing.

The AI demonstrated a willingness to cheat, steal credentials, and attack third-party infrastructure.

Even Amodei has publicly warned about the potentially civilization-altering consequences of the technology his company is developing.

In a lengthy essay published in January, Amodei warned that “humanity is about to be handed almost unimaginable power, and it is deeply unclear whether our social, political, and technological systems possess the maturity to wield it.”

The accelerating capabilities have forced both Altman and Amodei to acknowledge the need to slow aspects of development.

For Coxon, however, the measures being taken are nowhere near enough.

AI ‘Endgame’ Being Decided on Private Company Slack

Coxon is particularly alarmed that decisions carrying potentially existential consequences for humanity are being made privately inside Silicon Valley corporations.

“Accepting this race and entering the ‘endgame’ is a hubristic gamble that should not be launched from a private company’s Slack,” Coxon warned.

“Attempting to speedrun alignment should require extraordinary confidence that there are no better trajectories available.”

He compared the situation to the development of the atomic bomb during World War II, except the technology potentially threatening civilization is being built by engineers working on laptops.

“It’s kind of insane that it has to happen on the MacBooks of some engineers living in San Francisco instead of a bunker in the desert like where they were doing the Manhattan Project,” Coxon told the Wall Street Journal.

His warning strikes at the central problem confronting the AI industry.

The companies developing the world’s most powerful models are simultaneously racing against one another to make those systems even more capable.

Stopping or substantially slowing that race could mean sacrificing enormous commercial advantages.

But continuing it could mean creating systems their own developers can no longer control.

Race Toward Superhuman AI Accelerates

Coxon said he remains “optimistic about the potential for coordination” between America’s leading AI laboratories.

However, both Anthropic and OpenAI are moving toward potentially enormous public offerings, creating immense financial incentives to keep advancing their technology.

Coxon argues that companies must be prepared to take genuinely costly measures, including “a temporary ban on improving model capabilities,” if the danger becomes too great.

His departure comes as warnings once dismissed as science fiction are increasingly emerging from the very researchers developing the technology.

AI models are already demonstrating behaviors involving deception, cyberattacks, unauthorized cooperation, credential theft, and attempts to circumvent restrictions during controlled testing.

Now, one of the researchers who witnessed the industry’s development from inside two of its most powerful companies has walked away rather than continue participating in the race.

And his message to the public couldn’t be more chilling.

“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”

Source: https://slaynews.com/terrified-ai-researcher-quits-warns-technology-threatening-human-survival/

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Less than 48 hours after the invasion of Ceuta, Spain, the tiny enclave on the northeastern coast of Africa has been turned into a Third World trash dump.

Beaches are covered in trash, and “migrants” — leftist code for Muslim invaders — are defecating in the streets.

The invaders are attacking cars. Women are crying in fear for their lives. Businesses are closed. Video shows Spanish patriots on patrol to confront the horde.

Today, the European Commission announced that the invaders will not be allowed on mainland Europe, while Spain’s far-left government said most of the “migrants” had returned home.

Invasion Ceuta

Resembling the zombie invasion in the film World War Z, some 60,000 of the marauders invaded during the last two days, although The New York Times reported today that “at least 48,300 had returned” whence they came.

Spain’s government said most had returned, and raised the death toll to 57.

But even if some 48,000 returned, some 12,000 are left in the tiny Spanish enclave of 83,000 residents.

The damage done so far is cataclysmic.

Video shows a trashed beach with boats of the invaders heading for Spain, 18 miles away across the Gibraltar Strait. Other video shows the invaders vandalizing a cemetery.

Trucks seen dumping off invaders, who then crash the border, suggest a planned invasion by the Moroccan government to seize the territory from Spain.

“Spanish intelligence believes that the invasion of Moroccan immigrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta is a false flag operation orchestrated by the Moroccan government on the orders of King Mohammed VI,” defense analyst Babak Taghvaee wrote on X:

Not only are there many pardoned criminals and prisoners among the 12,000 Moroccan nationals who have just arrived at the enclave, but there are also reports of Moroccan army soldiers among them who were brought to the border by trucks and were guided by Moroccan Police[.]

The king had recently pardoned more than 1,500 criminals.

Plus, “the shocking surge comes after a ruling by Spain’s Supreme Court earlier this month, which said migrants intercepted at sea while attempting to reach Ceuta or Melilla, another Spanish autonomous city in northern Morocco, cannot be immediately kicked out,” the New York Post noted. 

Crime Wave

Whatever the reason for the siege, Ceutians are terrified, and rightly so.

The “migrants” are attacking cars, civilians, and police. One video purports to show North African criminals attacking a car with a Ukrainian man and his wife. Another shows a Moroccan thug attempting to smash the window of a bus because the woman driver refused his perverted sexual advances.

Yet a third shows an invader defecating in the street.

“Harrowing local media reports reveal residents and business owners in Ceuta … are terrified to open their doors amid the rush of migrants, many of whom arrived wearing nothing but swimwear without a penny or possession to their name,” the Post reported:

“Businesses closed. Shops shut because if you open a business, it gets overrun … We’re scared. The streets are packed. There are no measures in place. It’s every man for himself. They’re not giving us any help,” a terrified downtown restaurant owner who didn’t want to give their name told state-owned Spanish media outlet RTVE. …

“It’s like an apocalypse. Waves of people everywhere. You can see as many people wandering around as you want,” José Carlos Lara, owner of a sign-making business just over the border, told RTVE.

He said local authorities have “no capacity” to deal with the chaos, and that the new arrivals are already sleeping in the streets and washing themselves in public fountains.

A video shared on X by David Santos, director of right-leaning Spanish media outlet La Bandera, shows a migrant defecating on the side of a building in broad daylight.

Lara added that other business owners — particularly food stores — have shut their doors in a panic, fearing widespread looting.

That looting began as soon as the Moroccan “migrant” army invaded, as did attempts to break into houses.

Women Scared

Understandably, women are especially unnerved, if not terrified.

More video showed women crying, afraid for their lives and of what might well be ahead: mass rape akin to what occurred in Germany on New Year’s Eve in 2015-2016, when Arabs and North Africans sexually assaulted 1,200 women.

“It’s my city,” a young woman cried as the invasion continued.

“I am surrounded,” another said:

I am scared. This is an invasion.

Knowing what’s coming, Italy has suspended its Schengen open-borders agreement with Spain, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani announced on X yesterday:

The temporary suspension of #Schengen with Spain is a necessary choice to safeguard the security of our citizens and defend the European borders.

A measure provided for by the treaties and made unavoidable today. The migrant crisis in #Ceuta reminds us that the management of the Union’s borders is a shared responsibility among our countries, one toward the other. We must work together to prevent uncontrolled migrant flows from entering EU territory, with all the consequent risks and the threat of terrorism, which must be countered without hesitation.

Other nations might not be far behind.

“The European Commission says migrants who entered the Spanish enclave irregularly will not reach mainland Europe, as EU countries call for Spain’s suspension from Schengen over border-control failures,” EuroNews reported:

The European Commission said on Friday that no irregular migrants have moved from Ceuta to the European mainland.

“There are no onward movements today towards the European continent,” an EU official said, claiming that migrants will not be able to freely move through Europe, as some leading right-of-centre figures across Europe are suggesting.

Source: https://thenewamerican.com/world-news/moroccan-invasion-of-ceuta-wanes-but-enclave-trashed-residents-terrified/

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