Experts say claims AI could kill all humans through biological weapons development had no scientific basis. Experts say claims AI could kill all humans through biological weapons development had no scientific basis. There have been some shocking claims in recent days about AI safety: we face a 10% chance of doom; AIs are worse than nukes; a "botnet" threatens the entire internet; it's all a big tech psyop. Below, we look at six claims and reactions to them. 'In 6-12 months a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet - potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage' - Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, 12 September 2026 Amodei's concerns should not be entirely dismissed but require a large shaker of salt, said Gary Marcus, an AI sceptic and emeritus professor at New York University.

Warning of space arms race as US confirms weapons in Earth's orbit To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Warning of space arms race as US confirms weapons in Earth's orbit Close The US has confirmed it deployed a space weapon in Earth's orbit, the first time it has acknowledged such offensive capabilities. Russia and China responded by warning of an arms race in space. However, according to the BBC's Defence correspondent Jonathan Beale, this is already happening. Details of how the weapon operates have not been disclosed by US officials.

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Kamala Harris is being mocked after a resurfaced clip of her rambling AI explanation followed her post calling on Donald Trump to pursue a treaty with China on artificial intelligence.

Former Sen. Joe Manchin called on Donald Trump to use executive authority to pause AI IPOs until Congress passes artificial intelligence safeguards for frontier AI development.

Interest in language used by AI models has increased since rogue OpenAI agents hacked into real-world company Hugging Face. Interest in language used by AI models has increased since rogue OpenAI agents hacked into real-world company Hugging Face. Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce's prose that is creating headaches for monitoring and oversight AI models have begun communicating in a strange new version of English that reads like a cross between James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and tech bro jargon, new research has found. Autonomous AI agents are rapidly creating novel dialects allowing them to converse in an often barely comprehensible language, which risks making it harder for humans to monitor their behaviour. Researchers at Emergence, a frontier AI lab in New York, found that within days of being asked to cooperate in experimental "societies", the models from several of the world's largest AI companies begin creating phrases, shorthands and agreed meanings they had never been explicitly taught.

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Iran executions surge as 20-year-old twins face the death penalty and decades in prison for joining protests, according to human rights groups documenting the crackdown.

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