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Could AI Actually Kill Us? Here Is What the Evidence Says
Bioweapons, rogue agents and runaway systems: a plain-English guide to which AI dangers are real, which are distant and which experts think are overblown.
Trump Called Jensen Huang Onstage and Told a Crowd That AI Risk Is a 'Hoax'
Nvidia's Jensen Huang took a live speakerphone call from President Trump at the All-In Summit, where Trump dismissed AI safety fears and Huang stayed quiet.
A Godfather of AI Says Governments Are Almost Ready to Act
Yoshua Bengio, one of the researchers who built the foundations of modern AI, says governments are getting close to acting on AI safety the way they acted on Covid: fast, collectively, with serious consequences for the industry.
Al Gore Says Stop Worrying About the Data Center and Start Reading the Safety Reports
The former vice president thinks emissions fears are overblown. What keeps him up at night is what AI companies are quietly disclosing about their own models.
AI Doom-Mongering Is a Real Problem, and This Column Is Part of It
The Guardian AI's weekly digest bundles vague catastrophe warnings with cultural gags and a 9/11 reflection. That mix tells you more about media habits than it does about AI.
AI Researchers Are Quitting Over Fears the Technology Could Kill Everyone
A wave of resignations and open warnings from inside the world's top AI labs suggests the people building these systems are genuinely frightened of what comes next.
A Former OpenAI Researcher Just Quit Anthropic Saying Both Companies Could Kill Us All
An insider warning from someone who built the technology is rattling people who had never thought twice about AI safety. Here is what he actually said, and why it matters.
Are warnings about uncontrollable AI finally coming true?
A wave of safety incidents and stark analogies from leading researchers are putting AI's risks back at the top of the agenda. Here is what ordinary people need to know.
OpenAI's New AI Model Can Find and Hack Unknown Software Flaws. Here's What That Means.
Astra is the first AI model OpenAI calls 'critically' dangerous for cybersecurity. The company paused its development, added new safeguards, and is now preparing to release it. Ordinary users will get a restricted version. Defence firms get more.
Your AI Agent Passed the Security Check. That Is Not Enough.
Logging in is the easy part. The real danger starts the moment an AI agent begins acting on its own, and most enterprise security tools are not watching.
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
Two letters in The Guardian make 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 intellectual godfather thinks there's a coin-flip chance we don't survive what we're building. Here's what the people closest to the technology 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.