earnestly
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Soon after, Evan Hubinger, Anthropic’s head of alignment science, tweeted, “Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The researcher, Jacob Coxon, shared a viral social media post that said: “People building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
“We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!” wrote Evan Hubinger, an Anthropic researcher who puts the odds of that happening within the next decade at more than 10 percent.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
"While these are merely requests and do not imply that visitors will be forcibly asked to leave, we earnestly ask for your understanding of the intent behind these guidelines and your cooperation," its statement said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
She loved the way he pronounced Odenigbo’s name, stressing it so earnestly.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Vocabulary lists containing earnestly
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