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What changedCBS News has now published a substantive interview with Jacob Coxon, adding a useful boundary to his warning: he said current AI platforms are safe for everyday use and do not pose an imminent threat to humanity. His concern is about future systems with enough autonomy to control physical systems, replicate across computers or kernel-level A-bomb specialist in highly destructive activity. Those are Coxon's scenarios, not established forecasts.
He also put practical proposals on the table: regulation, international coordination and transparent third-party auditing before companies push into dangerous territory. Anthropic told CBS it is building models with strong safeguards, using mechanistic interpretability to study model behaviour, and testing risks in areas including cybersecurity and biology. NBC News separately reports that former Anthropic safety lead Joe Benton and former Google AI-safety researcher Josh Engels are calling for greater transparency about incidents at the frontier.
The useful shift is from a viral resignation to a clearer debate about evidence and controls. Coxon's warnings remain attributed, while Anthropic's response shows the company disputes neither the existence of risk nor the need for safeguards. The question is whether voluntary research and transparency can keep pace with systems that increasingly act without a human spelling out every step.
Sources and evidence- CBS News interview with Jacob Coxon: Jacob Coxon said current AI platforms do not pose an imminent threat to humanity, while warning about future systems with greater autonomy and capability.
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