Evan Hubinger
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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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Mentions of Evan Hubinger per 1,000 mentions of anything, 7-day rolling, all podcasts.
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| Day | Share (7-day) | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 17 | 0.09‰ | 3 |
| Aug 28 | 0.03‰ | 1 |
| Sep 8 | 0.04‰ | 1 |
| Sep 9 | 0.14‰ | 3 |
| Sep 10 | 0.29‰ | 4 |
| Sep 11 | 0.37‰ | 3 |
| Sep 14 | 0.36‰ | 1 |
| Sep 16 | 0.27‰ | 1 |
| Sep 18 | 0.11‰ | 2 |
| Sep 20 | 0.14‰ | 1 |
| Sep 25 | 0.08‰ | 2 |
| Sep 28 | 0.16‰ | 4 |
| Sep 29 | 0.19‰ | 1 |
| Oct 6 | 0.05‰ | 2 |
| Oct 8 | 0.12‰ | 2 |
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AI extinction warning draws agreement, scrutiny, and sharp criticism
Several shows discuss Evan Hubinger’s agreement with Jacob Coxon that AI could kill all humans, with Hubinger putting the chance above 10% within the next decade.[1][2][3]
Breaking Points, Global News Podcast, and The Ezra Klein Show present Hubinger as an Anthropic alignment leader responding to Coxon’s warning about AI risk.[4][5][6]
Big Technology Podcast and Hard Fork treat the statement as evidence that serious AI-risk concerns exist inside the industry, while discussing the implications of that probability.[7][8]
Better Offline rejects the warning’s framing, with Ed Zitron calling Hubinger and Coxon’s claims vile and describing them as garbage.[9]
PBD Podcast discusses a different Evan, Evan Power, the Florida Republican Party chair, while several sports shows mention Evan Abrams or Evan McPherson instead of Hubinger.[10][11][12]
Sources · 12 moments
- 1.Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar · 9/10/26: AI Whistleblowers Dire Warning, Mathematician Says OpenAI Stole Solution, Data Center Support CollapsesSaagar Enjeti · Sep 10 · Listen at 10:52 ↗
“by the very people in the industry itself. So let's put the next one up here on the screen because you could say, okay, Jacob Coxon, the guy barely worked there for a couple of weeks. He worked at OpenAI. Oh, he's just a agitator, an activi”
- 2.TBPN · Apple’s iPhone Duo, Meta’s Muse AI Agent, Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Doom | Diet TBPNJohn Coogan · Sep 10 · Listen at 28:42 ↗
“Martin Casado from A16Z says, and the dissonance was less bizarre. And so he's comparing it to what it was like working on very scary technology, very different than what's going on today. And Evan. uh hubinger who works on alignment scienc”
- 3.Morning Wire · Evening Wire: Anthropic Dev Quits With DIRE Warning & Did Hunter Biden Pull A Crypto Scam? | 9.9.26Georgia Howe · Sep 9 · Listen at 9:30 ↗
“wipe out humanity. Jacob Coxon, who spent three years doing pre -training research at Anthropic and OpenAI, wrote on X that neither company is acting responsibly and that AI could, quote, kill us by the end of the decade. Anthropic team lea”
- 4.Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar · 9/10/26: AI Whistleblowers Dire Warning, Mathematician Says OpenAI Stole Solution, Data Center Support Collapsesplayed clip · Sep 10 · Listen at 5:25 ↗
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