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What changedJacob Coxon has put a more specific timeline on the danger he fears while drawing a firm distinction from today's systems. In a Fox News interview reported by the New York Post, he said current AI poses minimal extinction risk but claimed recursive self-improvement could emerge as soon as next year. He added that some people forecast six months.
That is Coxon's judgement, not a demonstrated timetable. The useful distinction is the mechanism: his warning concerns future systems capable of automating AI research and repeatedly improving their successors, not ordinary chatbot capability.
Coxon also rejected fatalism, calling the problem solvable and arguing for regulation and international coordination. The debate now has a sharper test: what credible evidence of models accelerating their own development should trigger a slowdown, and who could verify it?
Sources and evidence- Jacob Coxon, as reported by inkl and the New York Post's account of his Fox News interview: Coxon said current AI poses minimal extinction risk, distinguishing present systems from his feared future scenario involving recursive self-improvement.
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