{"id":24796,"date":"2026-09-10T02:37:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T00:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/10\/lawmakers-blast-ai-companies-after-researcher-warns-of-human-extinction-by-2030\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T02:37:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T00:37:50","slug":"lawmakers-blast-ai-companies-after-researcher-warns-of-human-extinction-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/10\/lawmakers-blast-ai-companies-after-researcher-warns-of-human-extinction-by-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers blast AI companies after researcher warns of human extinction by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon said AI will become \u2018superhuman systems\u2019 that can cause human extinction by the end of the decade<\/p>\n<p>Just a day after three Anthropic researchers warned that artificial intelligence could kill off humanity within the decade, lawmakers have begun lashing out about the risks of the burgeoning technology.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Cruz, a republican senator from Texas, said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1712597293170453\">interview<\/a> on ABC\u2019s The View, that AI poses a \u201ccatastrophic risk\u201d and that he \u201cread that whole tweet thread that that developer put out. It was highly concerning.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/09\/lawmakers-blast-ai-human-extinct-2030\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2b7a40c6cbcd6d16367850c23bef249a753aee37\/458_0_4583_3668\/master\/4583.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=75f3825a4fb128bbe1f9df7698459da2\" title=\"Lawmakers blast AI companies after researcher warns of human extinction by 2030\" \/>Former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon said AI will become \u2018superhuman systems\u2019 that can cause human extinction by the end of the decade<br \/>\nJust a day after three Anthropic researchers warned that artificial intelligence could kill off humanity within the decade, lawmakers have begun lashing out about the risks of the burgeoning technology.<br \/>\nTed Cruz, a republican senator from Texas, said in an interview on ABC\u2019s The View, that AI poses a \u201ccatastrophic risk\u201d and that he \u201cread that whole tweet thread that that developer put out. It was highly concerning. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon said AI will become \u2018superhuman systems\u2019 that can cause human extinction by the end of the decade Just a day after three Anthropic researchers warned that artificial intelligence could kill off humanity within the decade, lawmakers have begun lashing out about the risks of the burgeoning technology. Ted Cruz, a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/10\/lawmakers-blast-ai-companies-after-researcher-warns-of-human-extinction-by-2030\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lawmakers blast AI companies after researcher warns of human extinction by 2030<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24796"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}