A senior US Pentagon official refuted growing concerns about artificial intelligence risks after a former Anthropic PBC engineer publicly warned that AI industry insiders believed the technology “could kill us all by 2030.” In his speech on Thursday, Emil Michael, the US Department of Defense's chief technology officer and top official responsible for research and engineering, mentioned a social media post by former Anthropic engineer Jacob Coxon that has been viewed more than 150 million times and discussed concerns about a “dystopian” world dominated by unstoppable AI systems. “It's easy for people to fall into this doomsday cycle of 'we'll lose 40% of Americans and we'll destroy humans',” Michael said at a defense industry conference in Washington. “It's actually nothing more than fear of data centers, fear of change — all of these fears converged in one well-written tweet.”

A senior US Pentagon official refuted growing concerns about artificial intelligence risks after a former Anthropic PBC engineer publicly warned that AI industry insiders believed the technology “could kill us all by 2030.” In his speech on Thursday, Emil Michael, the US Department of Defense's chief technology officer and top official responsible for research and engineering, mentioned a social media post by former Anthropic engineer Jacob Coxon that has been viewed more than 150 million times and discussed concerns about a “dystopian” world dominated by unstoppable AI systems. “It's easy for people to fall into this doomsday cycle of 'we'll lose 40% of Americans and we'll destroy humans',” Michael said at a defense industry conference in Washington. “It's actually nothing more than fear of data centers, fear of change — all of these fears converged in one well-written tweet.”