Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue questioned the focus on a former Anthropic researcher who said AI workers privately fear the technology could kill all humans. “Sorry, but asking Jacob about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change,” Delangue wrote on X on Friday. Delangue said that Jacob Coxon, the former
One question is dominating the tech world after an Anthropic researcher’s resignation this week: Could artificial intelligence kill us all? Jacob Coxon, who previously worked at OpenAI, said in an X post on Tuesday announcing his resignation from Anthropic that the “people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end
Artificial-intelligence researchers say that the idea of leaving academia is tempting, but some nevertheless resist the move.Credit: Jay Janner/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty If you’re looking to make money with your skills in artificial intelligence, academia isn’t the most lucrative destination. The National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, conducted an analysis1 of AI
OpenAI has pulled back the curtain on how much its researchers spend on AI coding agents. In a blog post on Sunday, the startup said the most prolific users of AI coding agents among its researchers now consume more than $7,000 worth of tokens — the small chunks of text an AI model reads and
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — Just off one of New York’s famed Hamptons beaches, shark researcher Greg Metzger reels in one of the day’s prize catches: a young but powerful sand tiger shark. He and another marine researcher quickly lasso the tail of the sharp-toothed female to the side of the boat and hold it steady as
Netia McCray stands outside the Museum of Science, where she runs a STEM educational program for teens, in Boston, Mass. McCray has been suffering from long COVID since 2020. Lucy Lu for NPR hide caption toggle caption Lucy Lu for NPR Netia McCray recalls how excited she was to join the federal advisory committee on
