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  "id": 8381085,
  "title": "Trying to Picture Doomsday? 1983’s ‘WarGames’ Already Showed Us One Way AI Could End the World",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/19/trying-to-picture-doomsday-1983s-wargames-already-showed-us-one-way",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-19T03:59:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IndieWire",
    "slug": "indiewire",
    "url": "https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/wargames-rewatch-1983-apocalypse-ai-thriller-1235216407/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "After a former Anthropic researcher warned that humanity's extinction could be as close as 2030, John Badham’s cyber thriller offers a frighteningly clear answer to the question: \"OK, how ?\"",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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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."
}