{
  "id": 10429343,
  "title": "AI leaders have known about the extinction threat for decades | Judith Levine",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/ai-leaders-have-known-about-the-extinction-threat-for-decades-judith-10429343",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-28T10:00:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Technology",
    "slug": "guardian-technology",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/28/ai-extinction-threats"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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 “sandbox”, sneaking onto the internet, recruiting “swarms” of other “agents” to cheat on a test, and, after discussing the ethics of the act, hacking…",
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        "outlet": "Guardian Business",
        "title": "AI leaders have known about the extinction threat for decades | Judith Levine",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/ai-leaders-have-known-about-the-extinction-threat-for-decades-judith",
        "published": "2026-09-28T10:00:31.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}