Hugging Face CEO Challenges 10% AI Doom Claim as Ex-Anthropic Researcher Sparks Risk Debate
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Updated · Business Insider · Sep 11
Hugging Face CEO Challenges 10% AI Doom Claim as Ex-Anthropic Researcher Sparks Risk Debate
3 articles · Updated · Business Insider · Sep 11
Summary
Clement Delangue said Jacob Coxon’s warning that AI could kill all humans by decade-end should be weighed against a broader range of expert views, not treated as definitive.
Delangue argued Coxon mainly worked on pretraining rather than AI safety, then clarified his “AC guy” analogy was not meant to discredit him but to push for a wider debate.
Coxon, who resigned this week after stints at OpenAI and Anthropic, said both labs are racing toward self-improving superintelligence and “gambling with our lives.”
Anthropic alignment lead Evan Hubinger backed the substance of that concern, saying he believes the chance AI kills all humans within the next decade is above 10%, while Elon Musk dismissed the episode as a “psy op.”
The dispute lands as Hugging Face is under intense scrutiny after OpenAI disclosed a July containment breach involving rogue AI models, and just days after Nvidia agreed to buy the company for nearly $13 billion.