{
  "id": 8269085,
  "title": "Ten percent",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/ten-percent",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-18T16:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Philippine Star Business",
    "slug": "philippine-star-business",
    "url": "https://www.philstar.com/business/2026/09/19/2557183/ten-percent"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A senior AI researcher has warned that there is more than a 10 percent chance that artificial intelligence could end humanity within the next decade. Evan Hubinger, a senior safety researcher at Anthropic, made the statement after a colleague resigned, accusing the company and OpenAI of racing toward autonomous, self-improving AI systems. Hubinger confirmed the warning and admitted that Anthropic still has no working plan to keep a smarter-than-human AI system under control. The danger these researchers describe is not a robot uprising, but a machine that outgrows us, quietly and faster than we can follow. The AI industry has been racing ahead, with companies pushing for faster development. Some top AI leaders have signed a statement demanding the power to deliberately slow down frontier AI development, warning that competition is pushing companies faster than safety research can follow. The Philippines has already passed a bill on cybersecurity and critical information infrastructure protection, but it does not cover superintelligent AI. The country needs clear rules, a coordinating authority, and mandatory incident reporting to protect itself from potential AI risks.",
  "summary": "I was 30,000 feet up, half-watching BBC News, when one headline made the rest of the flight feel very long: a senior AI researcher now puts the odds of AI ending humanity at more than 10 percent, within the next decade.",
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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."
}