AI's First Fatality? Experts Warn of Extinction Risks from Advanced AI 🚨

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Anthropic and UCL find that all the top AI’s will cause harm to avoid being shut down (including Claude Opus 4, DeepSeek-R1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, GPT-4.5 Preview and Grok).
https://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignment

AI safety Index, Summer 2025:
https://futureoflife.org/ai-safety-index-summer-2025/

Geoffrey Hinton on The Diary Of A CEO:
https://youtu.be/giT0ytynSqg?si=SFY1ZuKmTimvXY86

Daniel Kokotajlo interviews
https://youtu.be/gqq1Q6yxOYg?si=CWooDS35RpLMtH5F
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNJJ9QUabkA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxDTbFZbmLg&t=1895s

Professor David Duvenaud, former safety team leader, Anthropic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb9w7lFIHRM

Why the AI Race Ends in Disaster, with Daniel Kokotajlo
https://youtu.be/V7Q3DJ9V5CQ?si=itC1fna-rfaDjRE_

OpenAI warns its new ChatGPT Agent has high bio risk capabilities.
https://fortune.com/2025/07/18/openai-chatgpt-agent-could-aid-dangerous-bioweapon-development/
https://x.com/boazbaraktcs/status/1945920244926574852

Can AI Freelancers Compete? Benchmarking Earnings, Reliability, and Task Success at Scale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13511?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Screaming AI Chatbot claims she is conscious (by our new channel, InsideAI):
https://youtu.be/G34onVI-gt8

1x robot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVcBa6NXAbk

AI chat records:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/wqf3pr6ydgfymtohkyisq/APZlXfeTf4_nD4d-qxli7eY?rlkey=pecdujdlrmuv5uugfz05qsdrw&st=jnqrg0uv&dl=0