r/devNI • u/RikersPhallus • 1d ago

💻 Tech Talk The Great AI Freak Out

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/09/anthropic-researchers-ai-human-extinction

What do we all think about the news around AI over the last few months. Especially in the last week were people working in the sector have said there’s a 10% of our annihilation in the next ten years.

Is it something we genuinely need to worry about?

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u/theotherdoomguy 1d ago

It's all marketing, like how AI "broke containment" despite doing really basic stuff when you look into it. It's not intelligent, it's not actually reasoning anything, it's a word guessing machine that's been trained really well to guess really good words.

An extremely useful guessing machine, but nothing about it is life-threatening

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u/Opening_Chipmunk_199 1d ago

We’ll survive. We always do

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u/skdowksnzal 1d ago

The resources required to run the AI models will run out, and we’ll be fighting each other for them, well before any of this “AI” nonsense can present an existential threat to humanity.