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Samuel Marks

AI safety researcher at Anthropic on its alignment science team, working on scalable oversight and the auditing of advanced AI models.

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securityConfirmed3 publishers

Anthropic's alignment lead puts his personal odds of AI killing everyone above 10% this decade

Evan Hubinger posted the number from inside the vendor on September 8, and attached to it was a written admission that Anthropic has no fix for superintelligence alignment.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 23%
Operator
Operator 42%
Investor
Investor 35%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives45
Confidence65
productOne report1 publisher

Anthropic's alignment science lead backs the resignation post that hit 171 million views

A researcher quit Anthropic. Colleagues who still work there said publicly that he was right. In the same account, OpenAI says its research organization logged 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday.

Publishers:fastcompany.com

Reality

Evidence44
Adoption47
Hype gap+31
Incentives71
Confidence43
leadershipOne report1 publisher

OpenAI's CFO described a training saving that Silicon Valley heard as self-improving AI

Sarah Friar told a Goldman Sachs conference that OpenAI's biggest models now train its smaller ones to hold down training costs. In the same week, two Anthropic safety leads put their reasoning about extinction risk in writing.

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption16
Hype gap+48
Incentives82
Confidence54
buildConfirmed11 publishers

The cooling-demand claim for frontier models rests on a single unquantified sentence

Four named researchers, two of them departures from Anthropic, put the safety-pacing argument on the record this week with dates and exact words. The buyer-side counterweight is one line about Ramp data.

Perspective Coverage

11 publishers
Builder
Builder 30%
Operator
Operator 38%
Investor
Investor 32%

Reality

Evidence74
Adoption58
Hype gap+18
Incentives66
Confidence71
investOne report1 publisher

Anthropic's alignment lead prices human extinction above one in ten

Seven named researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic want the frontier slowed, one of them quit to say so, and the only actions anyone can point to are that departure and a board seat for a former US safety official.

Publishers:cnbc.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption15
Hype gap+30
Incentives75
Confidence58