Why a decade of doomsday warnings failed to slow the AI race

<p>From Stephen Hawking to Jacob Coxon’s viral Anthropic resignation, fears that AI could threaten humanity have shaken the industry without stopping its pursuit </p><p>Before an Anthropic researcher resigned and declared human extinction imminent last week, tech leaders and scientists had sounded the alarm about a superintelligent AI ending humanity for over a decade.</p><p>The development of artificial intelligence “could spell the end of the human race”, warned professor and astrophysicist Stephen Hawking in 2014 – a little less than a decade before the public got its hands on the generative AI features of the original version of ChatGPT.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/15/ai-doomsday-warnings">Continue reading...</a>