Jessica Ji
Role at the time: Georgetown CSET senior research analyst, interviewed by Reuters
Mixed or conditional
Statement summary
Ji says the study is better treated as a hypothetical than a prediction and that the outcome is neither impossible nor guaranteed.
“we don’t know yet what the likelihood of that actually happening is — it’s not zero, but nor is it guaranteed.”
Open the original interview (opens in a new tab)AI models may soon self-replicate without data centers, Anthropic warnsInterviews with Ciaran Martin, Zhengxiong Li and Jessica Ji
Why we used this label
The matter under scrutiny is Anthropic's self-replication forecast and its framing of the experiments as a security warning. Ji accepts the possibility but withholds confidence in its likelihood, qualifying the forecast rather than endorsing a firm prediction.