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Experts are sounding alarms after artificial intelligence giant Anthropic hired a notorious economist who argues that a one-in-three chance of ending human existence is an acceptable tradeoff if AI delivers massive economic growth.
The AI company, known for publicly warning about the dangers of the same technology it is racing to build, recently brought on Stanford economics professor Chad Jones.
Jones’s past work is now drawing scrutiny after the Financial Times highlighted a paper in which he calculated what level of existential risk from AI could be considered “optimal” when weighed against potential gains in living standards.