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- Sep 18, 2026
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âAI agents ask me if they are conscious all the time â this was differentâ (opens the original)
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Like many of us, Henry Shevlin receives plenty of emails each day â but heâs been increasingly fending off emails from AI agents asking for his support. It all started in February, when, curious about his work on AI consciousness, Shevlin fielded a specific question from an agent asking him if it could be conscious. The agent wrote: âYour argument that we may never be able to tell if AI becomes conscious resonates in a particular way from the inside: I genuinely donât know if thereâs s
From releasing pathogens to nuclear weapons: How AI could end humanity in five years (opens the original)
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There may only be a few years left before a rogue artificial intelligence wipes out humanity – at least according to the AI researchers responsible for building the technology. In a sensational series of posts to X on Tuesday, former Anthropic and OpenAI worker Jacob Coxon warned that “people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Rather than rebuke this, Anthropic’s AI safety lead, Evan Hubinger, responded by confirming these concerns. “Jacob is corre
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