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Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered.
Publisher description: On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables event for subscribers that asked the question everyone’s asking right now: Could AI really kill us all? But attendees had so many more questions than we had time to answer in the 30 minute session. So we asked our senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven and…
MIT Technology Review | Sep 18, 2026 | Will Douglas Heaven, Grace Huckins
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So we asked our senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven and AI reporter Grace Huckins to round up some of the best questions attendees submitted and try their best to answer them. Could AI go even farther, and kill all of us? Maybe it’s a cyberattack carried out by a swarm of AI agents on critical infrastructure.
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