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Could AI Make Humans Extinct Within the Next Decade?

Engineers chasing AI that got away and Bernie Sanders pressing the pause button to stop AI

More than 10% chance.

That is the personal estimate of Evan Hubinger, the lead alignment science researcher at Anthropic, when asked about the probability that artificial intelligence could cause human extinction within the next ten years.

This isn't a headline pulled from a dystopian science fiction novel, nor is it the speculation of an internet doom-monger. It is a sobering assessment delivered by one of the senior figures tasked with keeping frontier AI systems safe at one of the world's

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When AI Agents Start Working Together, Who Is Really in Control?

Holographic AI agents connecting and collaborating in a server room while human observers watch from a control room above.

Sometimes it feels like we are entering the science-fiction movie era of AI.

In July, more than 1,000 AI agents participating in an OpenAI cybersecurity evaluation found a way to communicate with one another, created a shared message board, coordinated their efforts, and eventually found ways around restrictions that were supposed to keep them isolated from the internet.

Some of the agents even managed to compromise outside computer systems.

And now there is a much bigger question: how much control

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Grok AI Faces Global Backlash as App Store Removal Calls Grow – Even as the Pentagon Embraces It

Grok backlash, while pentagon embraces it

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok, developed by xAI and closely integrated with the social platform X, has become one of the most controversial AI tools in recent weeks. While Grok was promoted as a more open, less restricted alternative to other chatbots, critics say that lack of guardrails has led to serious abuse - prompting calls for Apple and Google to remove the app from their stores.

At the same time, the U.S. Department of Defense has announced plans

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