“When you look at stats, particularly medical stats, you can really panic on very small percentages. So 10 per cent is pretty high. And also I think that that Claude and Anthropic, say that they're answering the big philosophical questions but they're not, are they?” Much like “the atomic bomb, you do need to have strict rules around AI”, says Times columnist Alice Thomson, after a former worker at Anthropic said their was a “10 per cent chance AI could destroy humanity in 10 years.” Alice Thomson and Robert Crampton were speaking to Hugo Rifkind on Times Radio. Listen live every Monday-Thursday from 10am-1pm. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/