Evan Hubinger
Alignment science lead, Anthropic · as of 2026-10-04 · source
Anthropic alignment lead known for work on deceptive alignment and 'sleeper agents'; in 2026 publicly put AI extinction risk this decade above 10%.
News mentioning Evan Hubinger (1)
- Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigns, warning labs are "gambling with our lives" ★★★★
On Sept 8, 2026 pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon (OpenAI, then Anthropic) quit Anthropic in an X thread saying both labs are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives". Press reported 100M+ views within about a day. Anthropic alignment lead Evan Hubinger…
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- "Jacob is correct": Anthropic alignment lead puts AI extinction risk above 10% this decade original ↗ Evan Hubinger @EvanHub · x · 2026-09-09
A serving Anthropic alignment lead publicly backed Coxon and said Anthropic has no plan yet to align superintelligence. Press worldwide quoted it. - "I resigned from Anthropic today": labs are "gambling with our lives" original ↗ Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess · x · 2026-09-08
The most-viewed AI-safety post of 2026 (press: 100M+ to 153M views within about 36 hours). It set off the week of events that led to Amodei's "We Must Pace the Frontier" and to public CEO support for a slowdown.
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- Anthropic CEO reacts to 'AI could kill us all' warning CNN · 2026-09-15
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