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Frontier AI Labs

The small group of companies training the largest general-purpose models at the capability frontier, and the competitive dynamics, staffing and disclosure practices that follow from that position.

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Anthropic's alignment lead answered a safety resignation with a double-digit extinction estimate

Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic's pretraining team on September 8 saying the labs are gambling with our lives, and the company's alignment science lead replied that he puts the odds of AI killing all humans above 10 percent over ten years, with no plan yet.

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