Concerns about the long-term risks of artificial intelligence have gained further attention after Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning AI pioneer widely known as the “Godfather of AI,” said that a 10% chance of AI causing human extinction within the next decade is not an unreasonable estimate.
Hinton’s comments come shortly after Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic researcher, publicly warned about the potential dangers of rapidly advancing AI systems.
Geoffrey Hinton’s Warning
In an interview with the BBC’s Newsnight, Hinton was asked about the possibility that AI could eventually cause human extinction.
His response was striking: he said that considering the risk to be as low as 1% would be very foolish, while describing a 10% estimate as not unreasonable.
Hinton explained that humanity has never before created entities that could potentially become more intelligent than humans. Because of that, he believes it is difficult to predict exactly what could happen as AI systems become increasingly capable.
How Does This Connect to Jacob Coxon’s Concerns?
Jacob Coxon recently resigned from Anthropic, saying that AI companies are moving rapidly toward self-improving superintelligence and that the potential consequences could be extremely serious.
Coxon argued that the rapid development of increasingly autonomous AI systems could eventually make human control much more difficult.
His warning received support from other people working in AI safety, including Anthropic’s alignment-science lead Evan Hubinger, who has separately said that he personally considers the probability of AI killing all humans within the next decade to be above 10%.
Why Hinton’s Statement Matters
Geoffrey Hinton is one of the most influential pioneers in modern AI and a 2024 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics for foundational work on machine learning and artificial neural networks.
His comments do not mean that human extinction from AI is certain. Instead, they highlight how seriously some leading AI researchers view the possibility of catastrophic outcomes as AI capabilities continue to advance.
The discussion is therefore shifting from what AI can do today toward a much bigger question:
What happens if AI systems eventually become more intelligent and capable than humans
For researchers like Hinton and Coxon, understanding and managing that risk may be just as important as continuing to advance the technology itself.
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