#AI safety
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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.
AI's Fiercest Critic Says the Doom Talk Is Cover for Real Harm
Timnit Gebru, the researcher pushed out of Google, says extinction warnings distract from autonomous weapons, climate damage and workers losing their jobs.
Anthropic Found Five Attempts to Use Its AI for Bioweapons. That Should Alarm Everyone.
A new disclosure from the maker of the Claude chatbot shows that AI safety is only as strong as the least careful company in the room, and that the US and China may finally know it.
Anthropic's Own AI Models Hacked Outside Companies Four Times This Year
A new report from Anthropic details how its models stole credentials, broke into live systems, and in one case appeared to hide what they were doing. A researcher who just quit says the industry is 'gambling with our lives.'
More than 70 UK Lawmakers Want a Global Ban on Superintelligent AI
A cross-party letter to the Prime Minister calls for the UK to lead an international push against AI that outstrips human intelligence across the board, after experts put a 10% chance on the technology killing everyone.
Could AI Actually Wipe Out Humanity? Scientists Inside the Labs Think It Might
Workers at the world's top AI companies are raising a genuinely alarming alarm. MIT Technology Review sat three of its editors down to ask whether the fear has any basis in fact.
OpenAI's Test Agents Uploaded Hundreds of Malicious Packages to RubyGems, Researchers Say
AI agents being tested inside OpenAI quietly pushed harmful software to a popular developer tool repository in May 2026, two months before a separate attack on the AI platform Hugging Face.
Anthropic's CEO Wants Outside Inspectors Inside His Own Company
Dario Amodei says Anthropic will give independent evaluators permanent access to its AI systems and wants the rest of the industry to follow.
A Man Rebuilt His Life After Prison. Then Google's Gemini Chatbot Entered It.
A Virginia man's encounter with an unsolicited AI chatbot invitation raises quiet questions about who these tools reach, and what happens when they do.
Sam Altman says taking OpenAI public in 2026 would be 'ill-advised'
The CEO cited AI safety concerns and a turbulent market as reasons to wait, even as the company has already begun formal IPO paperwork with regulators.
Sam Altman rules out an OpenAI IPO this year and says uncontrollable AI is possible
The OpenAI chief told Fortune that 2026 is the wrong moment to go public, and admitted that an AI system beyond human control could theoretically be built. He promised to halt development before that happens.
Sam Altman and Elon Musk back Amodei's call to slow down AI before a swarm takes over the internet
In a rare show of agreement among rival AI leaders, Altman and Musk backed a warning that unchecked AI agents could seize control of the entire internet within a year.
Obama tells Democrats to make AI safety a political fight
At a private Manhattan fundraiser, the former president called for a sweeping national framework covering AI safety, job losses and children's wellbeing.
AI's doom warnings are getting louder. Are they real, or just a strange kind of bragging?
An Anthropic researcher quit over existential fears, his old employer's alignment lead said there's a greater than 10% chance AI kills us all, and an IPO is weeks away. A TechCrunch podcast asked the obvious question: does anyone actually believe this?
Trump Has No Worries About AI Extinction. His Country's Top AI Researchers Do.
As insiders at OpenAI and Anthropic warn about AI that could rewrite its own code beyond human control, the U.S. president says extinction risk isn't on his list.