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Could AI pose a serious threat to our existence? | Letters
Publisher description: Letters: Readers respond to the warning from a former Anthropic researcher that the technology could ‘kill us all’ by the end of the decade
The Guardian | Sep 18, 2026 | Guardian staff reporter
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Many, many times. It’s the familiar plotline of pretty much every sci-fi movie about AI, ever. Because AI certainly poses very real risks. If AI develops goals of its own, however, rules and kill switches cease to be safeguards and become obstacles. Iem LeurinkCallosa d’en Sarrià, Spain If AI is to be regulated (The Guardian view on controlling AI: humanity cannot outsource its survival, 11 September), one thing that needs to change is the glamourising rhetoric with which AI is spoken of.
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