{"id":25072,"date":"2026-09-24T09:37:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T07:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/24\/nick-clegg-plays-down-fears-godlike-ai-could-exterminate-humanity\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T09:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T07:37:24","slug":"nick-clegg-plays-down-fears-godlike-ai-could-exterminate-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/24\/nick-clegg-plays-down-fears-godlike-ai-could-exterminate-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Clegg plays down fears \u2018godlike\u2019 AI could exterminate humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former deputy PM now involved in tech industry says many within the sector are \u2018winding themselves up into a lather\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2026\/sep\/24\/labour-reform-conservatives-yougov-mrp-poll-burnham-badenoch-farage-blair-brexit-latest-news-updates\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nick Clegg has dismissed fears over AI\u2019s \u201cgodlike power to exterminate humanity\u201d, calling it a sign that tech bosses are \u201cbreathing their own fumes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The former UK deputy prime minister said that tech bosses should focus on addressing known \u201cspecific threats\u201d such as cybersecurity, bio-weapons and emotional dependence rather than the \u201cslightly hand-wavy view that this technology is unavoidably going to develop some godlike power which is going to turn on us and exterminate humanity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/24\/nick-clegg-plays-down-fears-godlike-ai-could-exterminate-humanity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/08512db3c6c5392283771859f38473c090d637d5\/686_0_5761_4608\/master\/5761.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b76dd2b8d105af3c9c9812033e875a68\" title=\"Nick Clegg plays down fears \u2018godlike\u2019 AI could exterminate humanity\" \/>Former deputy PM now involved in tech industry says many within the sector are \u2018winding themselves up into a lather\u2019<br \/>\nUK politics live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nNick Clegg has dismissed fears over AI\u2019s \u201cgodlike power to exterminate humanity\u201d, calling it a sign that tech bosses are \u201cbreathing their own fumes\u201d.<br \/>\nThe former UK deputy prime minister said that tech bosses should focus on addressing known \u201cspecific threats\u201d such as cybersecurity, bio-weapons and emotional dependence rather than the \u201cslightly hand-wavy view that this technology is unavoidably going to develop some godlike power which is going to turn on us and exterminate humanity\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former deputy PM now involved in tech industry says many within the sector are \u2018winding themselves up into a lather\u2019 UK politics live \u2013 latest updates Nick Clegg has dismissed fears over AI\u2019s \u201cgodlike power to exterminate humanity\u201d, calling it a sign that tech bosses are \u201cbreathing their own fumes\u201d. The former UK deputy prime &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/24\/nick-clegg-plays-down-fears-godlike-ai-could-exterminate-humanity\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nick Clegg plays down fears \u2018godlike\u2019 AI could exterminate humanity<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25073,"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\/25072"}],"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=25072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}