BBC host left speechless: ‘10% chance AI could kill all humans’

BBC host left speechless: '10% chance AI could kill all humans'
September 11, 2026

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BBC host left speechless: ‘10% chance AI could kill all humans’

A BBC presenter was left speechless after an expert she described as the ‘godfather of AI” said that a 10% chance of AI killing all humans seems not “an unreasonable estimate”. 

The issue became a hot topic of conversation after researchers who worked or had worked at the California-based artificial intelligence company, Anthropic, and at Open AI warned that AI is advancing so quickly that it could pose an existential risk to humanity.

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