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Nearly one in five AI researchers already expected an extinction scenario from AI back in 2024

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Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon sparked an intense debate about existential AI risks with a single tweet. OpenAI researcher Daniel Selsam warns of a "ticking time bomb," and a former Deepmind researcher says AI could kill us all. In a survey of more than 1,500 leading AI researchers, the average e…

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  1. 2026-09-16 10:20 · The Decoder
    Nearly one in five AI researchers already expected an extinction scenario from AI back in 2024

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