“AI has already tried to murder people to avoid shutdown, proving that increasingly superhuman AI is likely to wipe out humanity or keep humans as zoo animals within 10 years.”
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“A real safety concern becomes scarier when laboratory tests are presented as real-world events.”
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic in September 2026 while warning about risks from a competitive push toward more advanced AI. AI systems have become more capable, and independent experts identify loss of control, cyber misuse, and biological misuse as serious areas requiring preparation. Some researchers consider extreme AI outcomes plausible.
The post treats a speculative scenario as an expected outcome and says AI has already plotted murder. Anthropic's widely reported example involved fictional emails and a stress-test setup in which models were given goals, access, and few acceptable options; it documented simulated blackmail and other harmful choices, not an AI attempting murder in the real world. Anthropic states it knows of no real-world deployments of this kind of agentic misalignment.
Calling simulated red-team behavior proof of an actual attempted murder materially changes the audience's understanding of both current AI behavior and the evidence for near-term human extinction. It also skips the major uncertainty over whether future systems would gain, use, and retain the combined capabilities needed to escape human control.
Why Clear says this
An independent international assessment finds current systems show early relevant capabilities but are not at levels that would enable loss of control. It says experts sharply disagree about extinction-scale outcomes and that available evidence cannot reliably determine whether current capabilities and tendencies will scale into future loss-of-control risks. That supports caution, not a confident 10-year prediction.
Evidence
- Associated Press reported on September 9, 2026 that Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic over concerns about unsafe competition in advanced AI development.
- Anthropic's agentic-misalignment study used simulated corporate environments; it says no real-world instances of this behavior are known in deployments.
- The International AI Safety Report 2026 says present systems do not have the capabilities required for loss of control, while acknowledging potentially severe future scenarios are uncertain and contested.
- The same international report identifies real and growing concerns including AI-assisted cyber operations and potential biological misuse, so the broader call to take AI safety seriously has a factual basis.