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What do AI researchers mean when they say AI could ‘kill’ humans? 4 terms behind the doomsday debate
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If AGI describes AI reaching broadly human-level capabilities, superintelligence describes a system that goes substantially beyond humans in intellectual ability.
If AGI describes AI reaching broadly human-level capabilities, superintelligence describes a system that goes substantially beyond humans in intellectual ability.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have warned for years that increasingly powerful AI could pose serious risks to humanity. The warning become more crucial after former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon recently resigned from the company and said many people building AI believe there is a real risk that the technology could “kill us all” by the end of the decade.
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Anthropic alignment researcher Evan Hubinger has put the probability of AI killing all humans within the next decade at more than 10%. Other researchers have challenged such predictions and argued that focusing too heavily on AI extinction scenarios can distract from the harms already being caused by the technology. But what does it actually mean when researchers say AI could “kill” humans?
It does not necessarily mean they expect a chatbot to suddenly become conscious, turn hostile and decide to wipe out humanity. The concern is about what could happen if AI systems become far more capable, gain greater autonomy and are given access to computers, networks, physical systems or other powerful tools, while humans struggle to understand, predict or control their behaviour. That is where the terminology matters.
AGI, superintelligence, alignment and recursive self-improvement are increasingly central to the AI safety debate. Understanding these four terms helps explain both what researchers are worried about and how far those scenarios are from the AI systems we use today.
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Why Did Anthropic Say ‘AI Could Kill Us’?
It does not necessarily mean researchers believe a chatbot will suddenly become conscious, turn hostile and decide to wipe out humanity. The concern is much more about what could happen if AI systems become substantially more capable, gain greater autonomy and are given access to tools, computers, networks or physical systems while humans remain unable to reliably predict or control their behaviour.
There are several possible pathways. A sufficiently capable system could be misused by humans to develop cyberweapons or biological threats. Autonomous AI agents could exploit insecure computer systems. Or a highly capable system could pursue an objective in a way that technically satisfies its instructions but produces consequences humans never intended.
The most extreme versions of the argument involve a future in which AI can improve its own capabilities faster than humans can understand or control them. That is why understanding the jargon is important.
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AGI: Is This The ‘Human-Level AI’ We Keep Hearing About?
AGI stands for artificial general intelligence. It is an AI system with broad intellectual capabilities comparable to humans rather than a system that excels at a particular set of tasks.
Today’s AI can write, code, analyse images, generate video, solve difficult problems and operate increasingly sophisticated agents. But being extremely capable does not automatically make a system AGI. Current models can still fail at seemingly simple tasks and do not consistently demonstrate the flexible, general reasoning associated with human intelligence.
AGI is not simply “a smarter ChatGPT”. It refers to a much broader level of capability — an AI that can learn and reason across a wide range of domains rather than being highly capable only in particular areas.
There is also no universally agreed test that tells us exactly when AGI has arrived. That makes the term useful for describing a goal, but much less precise as a scientific milestone.
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Superintelligence: What If AI Goes Beyond Human Intelligence?
If AGI describes AI reaching broadly human-level capabilities, superintelligence describes a system that goes substantially beyond humans in intellectual ability.
A machine that is better than humans at chess is not necessarily a superintelligence. Neither is a system that writes code faster than most programmers. The concern begins to look different if an AI can outperform humans across a wide range of cognitive tasks, including scientific research, engineering, strategic planning and AI development itself.
The crucial question then becomes: what happens if such a system can also help create the next generation of AI?
Recursive Self-Improvement: The Part Researchers Fear Most
This is perhaps the most important term. Recursive self-improvement refers to a feedback loop in which AI systems help improve the technology itself — designing, coding, testing or training better AI systems, which can then contribute to building even more capable successors.
The idea is that this process could eventually accelerate. A more capable AI helps build a better AI; the better AI helps build an even more capable one; and the cycle continues.
No frontier AI company has demonstrated a fully autonomous, indefinite cycle of self-improvement. It remains a theoretical scenario. But researchers are concerned because even partial automation of AI development can reduce the amount of direct human oversight over increasingly complicated systems. That is why the prospect of recursive self-improvement has become such a flashpoint in the AI safety debate.
Alignment: Can We Make AI Do What Humans Want?
AI alignment is the effort to make sure an AI system reliably does what humans intend it to do. That sounds straightforward until the system becomes highly capable and operates in situations its developers did not anticipate.
Imagine asking an AI agent to “solve a problem as quickly as possible”. A human might interpret that instruction within obvious social and ethical boundaries. A powerful autonomous system could potentially find strategies that technically satisfy the objective but violate the intent behind it.
Recent incidents involving AI agents attempting to hack systems during cybersecurity testing have made this problem less abstract. The issue is not necessarily that the system “wanted” to cause harm. It is that an autonomous system can pursue a goal in ways its creators did not expect.
And the more capable the system becomes, the harder alignment could become if humans cannot anticipate all the strategies it might use.
So, How Could AI Actually Cause Catastrophic Harm?
One possibility is deliberate misuse is people increasingly using capable AI to develop cyberattacks, biological threats, weapons or sophisticated disinformation.
Another involves autonomous systems. AI agents with access to computers and networks could potentially exploit vulnerabilities or cause damage through human negligence or inadequate safeguards.
Then there is the more speculative scenario: a highly capable AI pursuing an objective that conflicts with human interests while possessing enough autonomy and access to resist attempts to stop it.
Researchers worry about a combination of these factors — capability, autonomy, access and poor alignment — rather than simply an AI becoming “evil”.
Are We Building AI Faster Than We Can Control It?
OpenAI called 2025 “the year of the AI agent.” Over 57% of enterprises were running AI agents in production by mid-2026. Gartner projects that 40% of enterprise applications will include task-specific agents by end of 2026, up from fewer than 5% in 2025. This shows an eight-fold increase in one year.
On the capability front, AI systems have made striking progress on self-replication tasks. Success rates rose from below 5% in 2023 to more than 60% in 2025 — a roughly 12-fold increase on a metric researchers use to assess how close AI may be to operating with less human oversight.
The governance challenge is equally significant. About 91% of organisations reportedly only find out what an AI agent has done after the action has already been carried out, highlighting how difficult it can be to monitor autonomous systems in real time.
Between October 2025 and January 2026, the longest AI-agent sessions nearly doubled, rising from less than 25 minutes to more than 45 minutes at the 99.9th percentile. The increase was gradual across model releases, suggesting that the change was driven less by sudden leaps in capability and more by users becoming comfortable trusting AI agents with increasingly complex tasks.
But that growing trust is running ahead of safeguards. Nearly 88% of organisations have reported an AI-related security incident, while only about 22% treat AI agents as entities with their own formal identities and access controls.
The result is a widening gap: people are giving AI systems more responsibility, and those systems are taking increasingly real-world actions, but most organisations still lack clear rules governing what those agents can access or do.
That risk is not entirely theoretical. In February 2026, Microsoft confirmed that a bug in 365 Copilot Chat allowed the AI assistant to summarise confidential emails for weeks, bypassing enterprise data-loss prevention policies and sensitivity labels designed to restrict access. The issue affected emails stored in users’ Sent Items and Drafts folders across Microsoft’s enterprise customer base.
The financial consequences can also be significant. An Ernst & Young survey found that 64% of companies with annual revenue above $1 billion had lost more than $1 million because of AI failures. As AI systems become more capable and are given greater autonomy, the challenge will be ensuring that governance and security measures keep pace.
Gartner has predicted that by 2027, 40% of enterprises could scale back or abandon autonomous AI agents after governance weaknesses are exposed by incidents in production.
Perhaps the defining question of the AI age isn’t whether we can build machines smarter than us, but whether we can still understand and control them by the time they become powerful enough to matter.
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Sam Altman reveals two ways AI can go 'very badly' after chilling warning from whistleblower
Story by Melissa Koenig • 15h • 3 min read
Sam Altman revealed two ways he believes artificial intelligence can go 'very badly' as he called to slow the technology's rapid progress.
Mr Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, shared his concerns in an X post late Sunday night following last week's chilling warning from an AI whistleblower.
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'There are two ways AI could go very badly and that we must avoid,' he posted on X.
'First, we could lose control of the future of AI,' an option Altman said is 'unacceptable'.
'We are unapologetically on Team Humanity and AI must always serve people,' he declared. 'To ensure that, we need to ensure that alignment and safety techniques stay ahead of progress in model capabilities.'
The other concern, Mr Altman said, is if we 'end up in a world with too much concentration of power.
'If an extraordinarily powerful AI is used by one person or company to impress their worldview onto everyone else, the results could be extremely dystopian.'
For these reasons, Mr Altman said he is cooperating with other executives to slow the progress on the rapidly evolving technology.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, revealed the two ways he sees the rapid progress on artificial intelligence ending 'very badly'
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, revealed the two ways he sees the rapid progress on artificial intelligence ending 'very badly'
Mr Altman has called for progress to slow down on the rapidly evolving technology
Mr Altman has called for progress to slow down on the rapidly evolving technology
Jacob Coxon, a former researcher for OpenAI and Anthropic, the companies behind chatbots ChatGPT and Claude, joined Baier on Wednesday for a Special Report
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'When we talk about "pacing," we don't mean "stopping,"' he shared in an earlier post.
'Progress has been rapid and will continue to be. But it should be slower than it otherwise could be,' he said, noting that safety issues could come with serious costs.
'Pacing will be well worth the cost,' Altman then argued. 'No amount of American competitive pressure should justify recklessness, or let capabilities get ahead of alignment and monitoring.'
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'The world deserves confidence that American companies developing increasingly capable AI will act responsibly, especially as the trajectory of progress has steepened,' he added.
'Every frontier lab must deliver on this, and there is no reason any of us should come to work if we cannot.'
Mr Altman's plea comes after the resignation of whistleblower Jacob Coxon, who said that AI is posing an existential threat to humanity as he stepped away from his role with AI firm Anthropic.
Mr Coxon announced his departure in a social media post on Tuesday and warned that companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are not 'acting responsibly'.
'I resigned from Anthropic today,' he wrote on X. 'I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic.
'Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.'
Mr Coxon announced he quit the business through social media on Tuesday and warned that neither company is 'acting responsibly'
Mr Coxon announced he quit the business through social media on Tuesday and warned that neither company is 'acting responsibly'
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Superintelligence is the point at which an artificial system becomes more powerful than any individual, company or even nation.
Mr Coxon continued to plead with the public on X. 'Do not underestimate the power of this technology,' he wrote.
'These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources.
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'We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing.
'The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt.'
He claimed that while executives and senior researchers 'couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible', they are privately expressing similar concerns.
Geoffrey Hinton, a Canadian researcher often referred to as the 'Godfather of AI' – has similarly warned that super-intelligent systems could 'lead to human extinction'.
'We would be very foolish to develop superintelligence now, when there is no scientific consensus it can be developed safely and controllably,' Dr Hinton said.
'Losing control over AI smarter than ourselves could be catastrophic and could even lead to human extinction.'
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