Former Anthropic researcher drops 'scary' prediction for 2027
A former researcher for AI firm Anthropic has revealed his predictions for next year and it is looking ‘pretty scary’.
This comes as experts continue to stress concerns over the advancement of artificial intelligence, with Anthropic’s own CEO Dario Amodei even calling for the industry to be slowed down.
Now, ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon has appeared on an episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart where he shared the grim reality of the future of the tech industry with AI.
Coxon shared how the thought of AI becoming increasingly intelligent was always a ‘long term’ idea rather than being in the near future, adding that ‘there was this big scary thing in the future, but I struggled to think too far into the future and now it’s just right there on the doorstep’.
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Stewart asked Coxon if there were ever explicit conversations in the company about the concerns of the AI models one day being ‘capable enough to take over the world’, to which Coxon confirmed.
Stewart further asked: “And the answer?”
Coxon replied: “The answer is probably not.”
One issue that Coxon flagged is that AI models are advancing at such a fast pace, that safety guardrails can’t keep up, with even more powerful models expected to be released in 2027.
He warned: “Looking at the models that will get trained next year, early next year, seeing predictions for how smart they’re going to be.
“They’re going to be very, very smart. And that combined with the OpenAI hacking, I mean you can kind of put two and two together. It’s pretty scary.”
Tech bosses warn about advancements of AI
Even top bosses like Amodei are now voicing their concerns about the rate at which AI is advancing.
In an essay, Amodei shared his thoughts on how the ‘AI industry should slow down’, adding that AI ‘swarms’ could take over the internet in as soon as six months.
This was met with support from other figures in the industry, with Elon Musk writing on X, formerly Twitter: “Dario is right.”
Meanwhile, OpenAI’s Sam Altman added: “I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we’ve had at OpenAI in recent weeks. Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We’ll have more to share soon.”
However, despite these public statements, it seems all of these moguls’ AI firms are pushing forward with advancements in the tech industry as the AI race continues.