Anna Wang
Role at the time: Anthropic employee; former Google DeepMind employee; explicitly personal capacity.
Mixed or conditional
Statement summary
Wang supports the warning that researchers lack a viable scientific plan for risks from recursively self-improving AI. She nevertheless believes she can reduce risks from inside a lab and explicitly respects Coxon and others who choose to leave.
“There is not yet a viable scientific plan to solve risks from recursively self-improving AI. Please look up!”
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Why we used this label
Conditional defense of insider safety work, alongside agreement that the risk remains unresolved.