At a beachfront resort in San Juan, Puerto Rico, SpaceX founder Elon Musk joined a three-hour discussion on humanity’s dire fate if artificial intelligence started to rapidly improve. The afternoon ...

Other scenarios abound. A 2025 report by researchers at the RAND Corporation imagines AI systems gaining control of industrial factories, using those factories to secretly manufacture large quantities ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In a series of posts Tuesday night, AI researcher Jacob Coxon said he ...

Could artificial intelligence (AI) eventually become powerful enough to cause human extinction? It has suddenly become harder to dismiss after former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said he believes ...

There are numerous predictions that within a few years AI will cause human extinction, and many of these warnings are coming from experts in AI companies, not only the general public. A popular one is ...

The "ultimate doomsday (human extinction/civilization collapse) scenarios" discussed from scientific and man-made perspectives are mainly consolidated into the following four complex and worst-case ...

The FINANCIAL – – Artificial intelligence could kill all humans within the next decade, according to Evan Hubinger, an AI safety researcher at Anthropic, the company behind Claude. Hubinger has said ...

Malicious use of AI and nuclear conflict pose the biggest threat to human extinction by the year 2100, global experts have warned. Co-chaired by Dr Christopher JL Murray, director of the Institute for ...

AI researcher Jacob Coxon's resignation highlights concerns over AI's potential to cause human extinction, prompting U.S. lawmakers to push for urgent regulation to ensure safety and control over AI ...

A new Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas chart has been making the rounds in policy and investment circles, and it's easy to see why. The chart maps four possible paths for U.S. GDP per capita through ...

As AI researchers debate whether increasingly powerful systems could one day threaten humanity’s survival, Newsweek asked some of today’s most widely used AI chatbots to assess the likelihood of AI ...