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September 15, 2026

New warnings about the risks of AI to humanity revive a long-running debate

  • Some CEOs suggest the industry should slow down developing the technology and put more safeguards in place.
    • By ALEX VEIGA
    AP Business Writer

    LOS ANGELES — New warnings from within the artificial intelligence industry have revived a long-running debate over whether advanced AI could escape human control and ultimately threaten humanity's survival, and whether the companies developing the technology are doing enough to prevent such a scenario.

    The CEO of Anthropic, the San Francisco company behind Claude, said he thought the industry needed to reduce the speed of its work, cautioning Saturday that a swarm of AI agents might be able to take over the internet in six months to a year unless companies devoted more time to putting safeguards in place.


     
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