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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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AI Hype vs. Reality: Pulling Back the Curtain on the Digital Wizard

Pulling back the Wizard of Oz curtain of AI
Peeking behind the AI curtain: what’s real vs. hype.

A tech CEO’s viral warning on X racked up over 60 million views in hours, predicting that up to 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs could disappear within five years.

Social feeds panicked. The media amplified it.

But bold predictions aren’t the same as business reality.

This wasn’t the first time AI hype made headlines - similar sensational claims have gone viral before, like the rumor that AI secretly built its own

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