Why It Matters
Significant development in Deep Research reported by MIT Technology Review - AI.
Overview
Available only for MIT subscribers. Listen to the session or watch below Employees at the world's leading AI labs are saying there's a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Or is this more scaremongering and hype?
Why It Matters
This development was reported by MIT Technology Review - AI.
Key Details
Watch a conversation unpacking AI extinction fears: where they come from, whether they hold any water, and, if so, what we should do.
Recorded on September 15, 2026 Speakers: Niall Firth, Executive Editor, Will Douglas Heaven, Senior AI editor, and Grace Huckins, AI reporter Related Stories It makes it easy to trick them into doing things they shouldn’t, such as telling you how to sabotage an aircraft’s navigation system.
AI doesn’t just learn stereotypes from its training.
It can cook up new ones, too.
AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems.
--- *Original report published by [MIT Technology Review - AI](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/15/1143936/roundtables-will-ai-really-kill-us-all/).*
