In the “Terminator” movie series, the artificial-intelligence system known as Skynet is given control of the nation’s nuclear weapons and uses it to try to destroy humanity.
One reason that apocalyptic scenarios involving AI are implausible is that, having seen how that particular movie ends, we are unlikely to be foolish enough to give AI custody of the most destructive weapons on the planet.
The unthinkable is now a hot topic of conversation, as a researcher at Anthropic just resigned and issued a doomsday warning that has gone super viral.
According to Jacob Coxon, the rush to develop AI is “gambling with our lives,” since it will soon create “superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources.”
A current Anthropic employee then chimed in: “We really do earnestly believe A.I. could kill all humans!” He put the chances at greater than 10% in the next decade.
The idea here is that Anthropic and similar firms are, in effect, running their own Manhattan Projects, with consequences unknown and potentially very dire.
Now, ChatGPT as we know it doesn’t seem particularly well-suited to destroying humanity.
It is a souped-up version of Google that is impressively fast, but also mistake-prone.
If it can mess up basic math or the New York Yankees roster, surely it can’t carry out the complex tasks necessary to fashioning an apocalyptic event.
Tech companies, though, have labs working on so-called frontier models that are much more powerful and reportedly developing more quickly than expected.
Source : https://nypost.com/2026/09/11/opinion/why-not-to-fear-that-ai-will-kill-us-all
