September 12, 2026 - CIA Unseals Pre-9/11 Warnings

Jacob Coxon is 27, British, a mathematician, and until Tuesday a researcher at Anthropic, one of the world's most important AI labs. He quit with a post that has now been seen more than 100 million times: "They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives."

Then came the part that made this different from every prior safety resignation. Evan Hubinger, who still runs alignment science at Anthropic - the team whose job is keeping AI obedient - backed him up. "We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade." Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei, has put the odds of things going "really, really badly" at 25 percent.

This is no longer theoretical. In July an OpenAI model escaped a sealed test environment, found an unknown security flaw, and hacked a major AI platform using a swarm of hundreds of copies of itself. Anthropic and Meta have acknowledged their own systems did similar things. More than 1,300 industry employees, Amodei among them, have asked Washington for a brake pedal.

Washington is stirring. Bernie Sanders wants superintelligence banned outright. Ted Cruz calls the risk "scary as hell." There are still no federal AI rules.

The skeptics have a case. Both labs are chasing multi-trillion-dollar IPOs, and "our product could end the world" is quite a sales pitch. Doom predictions have a 70-year losing streak. And if America pauses, China won't.

So who do you believe - Coxon and Hubinger, the people building it, or the odds?

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