Boaz Barak doubts AI will kill all humans, urges safety coordination
Boaz BarakPersonal public post by Boaz Barak, speaking about OpenAI from inside the organization; not presented as an official OpenAI statement.
Barak directly responds to Hubinger by expressing respect for researchers at Anthropic, calling for coordination, and saying he does not personally expect AI to kill every human. He nevertheless warns of multiple bad outcomes if safety is not prioritized.
“I personally do not think AI will kill all humans”
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Is Anthropic acting responsibly while advancing toward recursive self-improvement?
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic and said that Anthropic and OpenAI are acting irresponsibly by racing toward self-improving superintelligence. In a fuller interview, he praised Anthropic's current practices and denied that it was already cutting corners; his criticism concerns the competitive race and the pressures he expects it to create. Responses dispute the evidence and timing of catastrophic-risk forecasts, whether continued work inside AI labs can be justified, and whether governments should pause development or regulate its continuation. The record distinguishes these disagreements from arguments about the rhetoric of public warnings.
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Full primary public post and available surrounding thread. Related context: https://x.com/boazbaraktcs/status/2097514504728748467 https://x.com/EvanHub/status/2097497037956891126 Speaker and position scope are explained in the linked event.
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The primary thread includes Hubinger's parent post stating a personal extinction-risk estimate above 10% within a decade and conceding that Anthropic lacks a solved alignment plan for superintelligence.
After the quotation
Barak's same-period separate post says OpenAI's awareness of the magnitude of AI capabilities has changed recently and acknowledges both potential benefits and many ways development could end badly. His reply gives no numerical risk estimate.
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Why this label?
Questions universal-extinction expectations while supporting safety prioritization and coordination; does not disprove Hubinger's probability.
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The Dispute Index. "Boaz Barak doubts AI will kill all humans, urges safety coordination". First published: 2026-09-10. Last updated: 2026-09-30. https://disputeindex.com/events/243-barak-directly-responds-to-hubinger-by-expressing-respect