Evan Hubinger
Person#8 trending in Business & Startups this week · most on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Evan Hubinger is an AI safety researcher and alignment scientist at Anthropic, where he has worked on understanding and controlling advanced AI systems. He is particularly associated with research on deceptive alignment and model behavior.
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5.1‰ of what listeners heard
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Tone this week
Not enough signal yet (fewer than 3 episodes scored).
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Mentions of Evan Hubinger per 1,000 mentions of anything, 7-day rolling, business & startups.
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| Day | Share (7-day) | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 11 | 0.23‰ | 1 |
| Sep 14 | 0.42‰ | 1 |
| Sep 28 | 0.34‰ | 2 |
| Oct 6 | 0.38‰ | 2 |
| Oct 8 | 0.78‰ | 2 |
Why is it trending?· Last 7 days
AI extinction-risk claims and a separate fake Facebook account drive discussion
On The Diary Of A CEO, Jeffrey Ladish said Evan Hubinger believes there is a 10% chance or more that AI could kill everyone and works at Anthropic on AI alignment.[1]
On PBD Podcast, Patrick Bet-David and Jacob Coxon discussed Hubinger backing the claim that people building the technology earnestly believe it could kill us all.[2]
The two shows connect Hubinger to AI researchers’ warnings about catastrophic risk, while the transcripts differ on whether the focus is his probability estimate or his agreement with others’ claims.[1][2]
Life Wide Open with CboysTV discussed a separate fake Facebook account using the name Evan Chef, posting images and appearing to attract likes.[3]
Sources · 3 moments
- 1.The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · AI Safety Whistleblower: 700 AI Agents Attacked A Company To Cover Their Tracks! | Jeffrey LadishJeffrey LeDish · Oct 8 · Listen at 1:24:42 ↗
“left. He told everyone that these companies are not on track. And yes, the people who are building this really do think it might kill everyone. And then a bunch of other AI researchers from all of the companies on Twitter started to post li”
- 2.PBD Podcast · Ex-Anthropic Whistleblower Suspects Chinese Spies Inside America’s AI LabsPatrick Bet-David · Oct 6 · Listen at 32:25 ↗
“Yeah. And, and when you did this, uh, uh, who was it from Anthropic Research or somebody supported which, and, and Wang, right? Is who it was. I think Evan, Evan Hubinger was the main Evan Hoopen was one of them. Yeah, that he, uh, what did”
- 3.Life Wide Open with CboysTV · We Forgive Cleetus, Spenser Can't Ride, & Hiring The Amish!Ryan Iwerks · Oct 6 · Listen at 41:50 ↗
“The guy posts like 3 times a day, but it just, it says Evan Chef and it's you.”
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