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Anthropic Researcher Says AI Has Over a 10% Chance of Killing All Humans

aired Sep 10, 2026 · 35.0m
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Summary

This week, an AI researcher went mega-viral announcing his resignation from Anthropic, arguing that both it and OpenAI were effectively gambling with our lives.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of people, these, think, including: Another still-employed AI researcher chimed in to agree, and decided to add that he thought that there was greater than a 10% chance that AI kills us all.

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