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EPISODE · Sep 10, 2026 · 13 MIN

Ex-Anthropic employee warns AI could 'kill us all' by 2030. Not everyone agrees.

from The World: Latest Stories · host Joshua Coe

From it’s impact on students' education to its growing use on the battlefield in choosing targets, artificial Intelligence has multifaceted impacts on human life. But a former employee at the AI company Anthropic has taken to social media to warn that the technology could “kill us all” by 2030. The World’s Host Marco Werman spoke to two experts on AI to get their perspectives. Rumman Chowdhury is an AI ethicist and founder of Humane Intelligence. Daniel Kokotajlo is executive director of the AI Futures Project. He previously worked at OpenAI as a governance researcher specializing in scenario planning.

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