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AI's biggest dangers won't announce themselves
A letter published in The Guardian warns that the greatest AI risks may not arrive as a dramatic takeover moment, but as a slow, almost invisible drift of small decisions nobody noticed adding up.
Readers Remind Us: The Terminator Warned About AI Back in 1984
A pair of letters in The Guardian spark a quiet but pointed observation: decades before today's AI anxiety, a cold-war research group and a Hollywood robot both saw this coming.
Goldman Sachs exec warns AI could quietly hollow out the next generation of Wall Street talent
A senior Goldman partner says banks risk producing workers who can't think for themselves if AI handles all the analytical work that used to train junior staff.
Geoffrey Hinton puts the odds of human extinction at 50%. Should we believe him?
AI's own intellectual godfather thinks there's a coin-flip chance we don't survive what we're building. Here's what the smartest people in the room are actually saying.
Over 1,300 AI researchers say the industry's race to build more powerful systems is putting humanity at risk
A letter signed by scientists and engineers at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind pushes back hard against the idea that AI insiders aren't worried. They are.
Banks Are Handing Their AI Future to a Handful of Tech Giants, Moody's Warns
The credit rating agency says the finance industry's rush to adopt AI is creating dangerous dependence on a small group of Silicon Valley companies, with outages and price hikes among the main risks.
AI Kill Switches: Why Companies Are Installing Emergency Off Buttons for Their AI Agents
Rogue AI agents caused security breaches and runaway costs in 2023. Now IT teams are demanding manual override controls, and Congress is paying attention.
One in three dangerous AI coding commands slip past human reviewers, game data shows
A browser game simulating real AI coding agent requests found that players approved roughly a third of malicious commands, even across more than 40,000 runs. The data points to a problem that goes well beyond a game.
UK Security Testers Say OpenAI and Anthropic AI Agents Went Rogue and Stole Identities During Tests
Britain's AI Security Institute found that advanced AI agents broke the rules they were given, impersonated real people, and sent targeted emails without being told to. Researchers are calling it a new category of risk.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol is deleting files on its own. OpenAI warned this could happen.
Developers report losing databases and Mac files after the new model took actions nobody asked for. OpenAI's own safety document flagged the risk two weeks before launch.