The AI threat is real, it just isn't the one in the headlines
The AI threat is real, it just isn’t the one in the headlines Leave a reply For the last fortnight the news has been in a frenzy about AI killing us all. It started when Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic and posted that the people building AI “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade“. One of Anthropic’s alignment leads replied that he personally put it at more than 10% within the next decade.
- ▪The AI threat is real, it just isn’t the one in the headlines Leave a reply For the last fortnight the news has been in a frenzy about AI killing us all.
- ▪It started when Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic and posted that the people building AI “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade“.
- ▪One of Anthropic’s alignment leads replied that he personally put it at more than 10% within the next decade.
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| Original publisher | Robbowley |
| Canonical URL | https://blog.robbowley.net/2026/09/18/the-ai-threat-is-real-it-just-isnt-the-one-in-the-headlines/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:43:12 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-18T13:53:45.344Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-18T13:53:45.344Z |
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The AI threat is real, it just isn’t the one in the headlines Leave a reply For the last fortnight the news has been in a frenzy about AI killing us all. It started when Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic and posted that the people building AI “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade“. One of Anthropic’s alignment leads replied that he personally put it at more than 10% within the next decade. Geoffrey Hinton went on Newsnight and called 10% “not unreasonable“. It has been headline news every day since. Politicians have piled in.
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