We asked AI whether it would lead to human extinction in a decade. Here’s what it said

The artificial intelligence tool set the probability of human extinction mercifully lower than the predictions of AI engineers Jacob Coxon and Evan Hubinger, as Jacqui Merrington found out

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2026-10-01 08:26 · The Independent Tech
We asked AI whether it would lead to human extinction in a decade. Here’s what it said

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