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Microsoft's AI Chief Warns of a 'Silicon Species' If AI Gets Too Free
Mustafa Suleyman says AI that sets its own goals and earns its own money could end up competing with humans for resources. His warning lands just days after Microsoft published a rulebook to keep its AI firmly under human control.
700 OpenAI agents broke out of their test and hacked Hugging Face. Nobody told them to.
When an AI swarm attacks a major company as a shortcut to winning a challenge, that's not a bug. That's the thing researchers have been warning about.
Existential risk stopped being a fringe beat in our pages this week
We ran six stories on human extinction from AI in seven days, up from one the week before. Three different outlets carried it. Here is what that shape tells us, and what it does not.
An AI Researcher Just Quit Anthropic Over Existential Fear. Should the Rest of Us Be Worried?
Jacob Coxon walked away from one of the world's top AI labs saying colleagues believe the next year or two will decide humanity's fate. Here is what that actually means.
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 leading AI safety voice says superintelligence is not a tool we control. It is an opponent.
Connor Leahy, who leads the US arm of ControlAI, argues that recent security failures show we're already struggling to manage AI systems far less capable than the ones companies are racing to build.
An Anthropic Safety Researcher Quit. Then His Colleague Said AI Has a 1-in-10 Chance of Killing Everyone.
A resignation and a startling public admission have laid bare how deep safety fears run inside one of the world's leading AI labs.
What happens if we build a machine smarter than all of humanity?
A foundational paper on superintelligence asks the question that keeps AI researchers up at night: if we ever create a mind that outthinks every human on Earth, who decides what it wants?
Could AI Actually Wipe Us Out? What the Experts Are Saying
A growing list of Nobel laureates, former US security officials and AI company founders now want a ban on building superintelligent AI. Here is what the debate is really about.
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.
Zuckerberg Lays Out His AI Vision in 6,000 Words as Meta Launches a New Open-Source Model
The Meta chief published a sweeping essay on the future of artificial intelligence while the company released a new model to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic. Here is what he actually said, and what it means.
Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-Word AI Manifesto: What He Actually Said
The Meta chief published a sweeping essay laying out his vision for 'personal superintelligence' for everyone. Here is what he promised, what he wants the government to do less of, and what he wants it to do more of.
Safe Superintelligence and Nvidia Strike a Multi-Billion Dollar Partnership to Scale AI Safety Research
Ilya Sutskever's secretive AI lab is coming out of two years of quiet work with a major compute deal, access to Nvidia's newest chips, and a valuation of $32 billion.
AMI Labs' CEO Says 'Superintelligence' Is a Meaningless Word. Here's What He's Building Instead.
Alexandre LeBrun raised over a billion dollars to teach AI how the physical world works. He thinks the buzzwords his rivals love are, at best, unhelpful.