What Bryan Cantrill thinks about Anthropic
Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Bryan Cantrill has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsI have never seen fear sown so irresponsibly by putative technologists as I have now with respect to AI and the threat of human extinction (!). Amazingly, that is not hyperbole: this week, ex-Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon claimed - and then Anthropic Alignment Science lead Evan Hubinger agreed - that the probability that AI will "kill all humans" is ">10% in the next decade" (!!).
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