The Dispute Index

Evan Hubinger

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Artificial intelligence safety researcher who leads alignment stress-testing at Anthropic.

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Statements by Evan Hubinger

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Evan Hubinger

Role at the time: AI safety researcher

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Statement summary

On September 12, Evan Hubinger agreed with Dario Amodei’s call to pace frontier AI while saying that development had become too fast to keep safe.

“I agree with Dario. If we are to survive, we must pace the frontier. The speed of development is quickly becoming too fast for us to keep safe.”
Read the original post (opens in a new tab)Evan Hubinger X post on pacing frontier AIPost ID 2098814911078138333; visible post body
Why we used this label

Hubinger supports pacing while criticizing the current pace not expressly regarding Anthropic’s conduct.

Read statementIs Anthropic acting responsibly while advancing toward recursive self-improvement?
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Evan Hubinger

Role at the time: Anthropic alignment researcher; personal public assessment, not a formal corporate response.

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Response to this claim

Evan Hubinger said Anthropic is trying its best but does not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and is not clearly on track to do so.

“I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.”
Read the original post (opens in a new tab)Evan Hubinger responds to Jacob Coxon on superintelligence risk and Anthropic’s effortsX response and follow-up
Why we used this label

He directly qualifies Coxon’s criticism rather than rejecting the underlying danger or unresolved alignment problem.

Read statementIs Anthropic acting responsibly while advancing toward recursive self-improvement?

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