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U.K. government’s AI lead has a message on frontier risks—it’s time to ‘harden and build defenses’
The U.K. government’s minister for artificial intelligence has warned that nations will need to “harden their defenses” against AI risk after a former Anthropic employee said that a human extinction-level event could happen in the next…
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The U.K. government’s minister for artificial intelligence, Kanishka Narayan, said nations must “harden their defenses” against AI risk after former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon warned that a human‑extinction‑level event could occur within the next decade. Coxon’s warning, posted on X and viewed 175 million times, claimed AI developers believe it could kill humanity by the decade’s end. Narayan told Fortune he takes the warning seriously.
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