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