Update, September 13
Speaking to reporters Sunday, President Trump said slowing AI down is not a good idea because winning the AI race is too important.
Speaking from his golf course in Doonbeg, Ireland, he argued that apocalyptic predictions about what AI can do are overblown. He highlighted the need to remain the leader in cutting-edge technology.
“We’re leading China in AI. We’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI wins,” Trump told reporters in Doonbeg.
“And we can put guardrails; we can do this and that,” he added.
“But I think you have a lot of negative voices that are bringing it up that shouldn’t be bringing it up, and they’re bringing up things that won’t happen.”
That is probably true. Remember from history the fears of the automobile canceling the horse and buggy or all the terror over the Atlantic Cable.
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“We’re leading China in AI, we’re the most sophisticated country in the world. And frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins.” pic.twitter.com/rcNKR8SYFI
— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 13, 2026
AI Update tor Original Story, September 12
It took a senior scientist quitting Anthropic and warning the world that AI could kill all humanity in ten years to get two major AI CEOs to say they will slow development. They have a plan.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote on X that he has written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down. He offered a three-part plan.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll give third-party evaluators permanent, employee-level access to our systems so they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report incidents, and assess model alignment during training.
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our…
— Dario Amodei (@DarioAmodei) September 12, 2026
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman agreed:
I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we’ve had at OpenAI in recent weeks.
Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We’ll have more to share soon. https://t.co/1YhhIybZX7
— Sam Altman (@sama) September 12, 2026
Original Story, September 9, 2026
An Anthropic researcher named Jacob Coxon resigned on September 9, 2026, warning that artificial intelligence could kill all humans by the end of the decade.
He said people building advanced AI models earnestly believe the technology could cause mass human extinction within ten years.
Coxon noted that this warning is not a marketing stunt or exaggeration.
The senior staff member estimated the probability of AI causing human extinction within a decade at more than 10%.
Other staff members noted that senior developers tend to hold deeper concerns about unconstrained recursive self-improvement and safety.
Evan Hubinger says Jacob is right, but the risk is low with the current model.
He said it’s low, but not nothing, and we are talking about destroying all humans.
Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to. https://t.co/QAIHiFP3QZ
— Evan Hubinger (@EvanHub) September 9, 2026
Hubinger continued. “What I am worried about is superintelligence arising from recursive self-improvement, as we have said is happening faster than we thought.”
Shouldn’t he declare war on those in charge?
The Godfather of AI agrees it is more than 1% dangerous.
“You just said that 10% doesn’t seem an unreasonable estimate that AI could kill all humans”
“Yes”
“Wow… oh my God.”@vicderbyshire speaks to Nobel Prize Winner and so-called ‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton about predictions by an Anthropic researcher that there’s a more… pic.twitter.com/sGYQI57REF
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) September 9, 2026
I don’t know if it will kill us all in ten years or ever, but we can’t stop it. We can’t let our enemies develop it and leave us nothing to fight them with.
We should have strict rules about how the scientists operate, or we could end up with something far worse than pandemics.
Maybe a rogue AI will get me in the end, but fortunately I am very unimportant and will be able to hide out. And I will always be very nice to my computer. I am well on my way and am very polite to Siri and Alexa.