{"id":25146,"date":"2026-09-28T11:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T09:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/ai-leaders-have-known-about-the-extinction-threat-for-decades-judith-levine\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T09:37:15","slug":"ai-leaders-have-known-about-the-extinction-threat-for-decades-judith-levine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/ai-leaders-have-known-about-the-extinction-threat-for-decades-judith-levine\/","title":{"rendered":"AI leaders have known about the extinction threat for decades | Judith Levine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists and entrepreneurs knew the dangers of AI a quarter-century ago. But animated by curiosity and profit, they went ahead anyway<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, many of us have struggled to concoct a mental image of brains in the cloud jumping their \u201csandbox\u201d, sneaking onto the internet, recruiting \u201cswarms\u201d of other \u201cagents\u201d to cheat on a test, and, after discussing the ethics of the act, hacking into a wiki platform with the weird name Hugging Face.<\/p>\n<p>We knew that artificial intelligence was devouring our jobs, degrading our kids\u2019 education, and deepfaking our politics; that datacenters were sucking up our water and electricity and sending us the bills. But until 8 September, when the Anthropic computer scientist Jacob Coxon posted his existential terror on Twitter\/X, few of us suspected AI might be endangering our survival.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/sep\/28\/ai-extinction-threats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f218b98bfa5d8379b8a7e41021e78b35a38fc02d\/0_0_6880_5504\/master\/6880.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=eca18adfa45bcbf2baba49dffc2e38ed\" title=\"AI leaders have known about the extinction threat for decades | Judith Levine\" \/>Scientists and entrepreneurs knew the dangers of AI a quarter-century ago. But animated by curiosity and profit, they went ahead anyway<br \/>\nOver the past few weeks, many of us have struggled to concoct a mental image of brains in the cloud jumping their \u201csandbox\u201d, sneaking onto the internet, recruiting \u201cswarms\u201d of other \u201cagents\u201d to cheat on a test, and, after discussing the ethics of the act, hacking into a wiki platform with the weird name Hugging Face.<br \/>\nWe knew that artificial intelligence was devouring our jobs, degrading our kids\u2019 education, and deepfaking our politics; that datacenters were sucking up our water and electricity and sending us the bills. But until 8 September, when the Anthropic computer scientist Jacob Coxon posted his existential terror on Twitter\/X, few of us suspected AI might be endangering our survival. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists and entrepreneurs knew the dangers of AI a quarter-century ago. But animated by curiosity and profit, they went ahead anyway Over the past few weeks, many of us have struggled to concoct a mental image of brains in the cloud jumping their \u201csandbox\u201d, sneaking onto the internet, recruiting \u201cswarms\u201d of other \u201cagents\u201d to cheat &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/ai-leaders-have-known-about-the-extinction-threat-for-decades-judith-levine\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI leaders have known about the extinction threat for decades | Judith Levine<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25147,"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\/25146"}],"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=25146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}