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Anthropic researchers panic, say AI could cause human extinction by 2030
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AI Frontier Models
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United States
◆ Timeline
- 9 September 2026Anthropic researcher says AI has 10% chance of 'killing all humans'cnbc.com
- 11 September 2026AI researcher Jacob Coxon quit, fearing extinction. Security experts see a familiar fightscientificamerican.com
- 13 September 2026We asked AI whether it would lead to human extinction in a decade. Here's what it saidindependent.co.uk
- 14 September 2026'We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans': if AI labs are so worried about AI ...news.uq.edu.au
- 16 September 2026Google DeepMind Researcher Says He Quit Over Fears AI Could Kill Humansbusinessinsider.com
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