Warnings from AI researchers and company leaders that increasingly autonomous systems could threaten humanity have intensified in the United States and internationally, though experts remain divided over the likelihood and mechanism of human extinction. Former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon said on Sept. 9 that developers were “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence,” while Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger put the chance of extinction within a decade at more than 10% [independentaustralia.net][vesti.bg]. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have separately called for slower development so that safety testing and safeguards can keep pace [technologyreview.com][vnexpress.net]. Other researchers and science writers say the more immediate risks are less speculative: misuse in cyberattacks, fraud, manipulation, autonomous weapons and biological threats. Wired reported that scientists consider AI-enabled bioweapons an unlikely route to human extinction, while noting that AI could lower barriers to harmful activity [wired.com]. A September Politico poll found that about two-thirds of Americans saw at least a moderate chance that advanced AI could destroy humanity, while a CBS News poll found that Americans generally favor slowing development and imposing government restrictions rather than stopping AI research altogether [futurism.com][cbsnews.com]. Highlights: • Public anxiety: The Politico poll found that 17% of Americans were almost certain AI could wipe out humanity [futurism.com]. • Poll divide: Seventy percent of respondents who voted for Kamala Harris in 2024 viewed AI as a moderate or higher existential risk, compared with 60% of Trump voters [futurism.com]. • Cybersecurity baseline: EFF said lawmakers should ground AI rules in established cybersecurity practices and close gaps in existing law rather than regulate only named models [eff.org]. Perspectives: Anthropic governance proposal: Dario Amodei’s call to slow frontier AI development also proposed giving third-party evaluators access comparable to that of company employees to oversee training and safety processes [storm.mg]. (Storm Media) AI-risk skeptics: Journalist Olivier Tesquet argued that extinction messaging can serve AI companies’ economic interests by attracting investment and reinforcing dominant firms, and warned against overly restrictive regulation [rts.ch]. (RTS) U.S. public: CBS polling found that Americans generally do not want to halt AI development because they see strategic, medical and scientific benefits, even while worrying that models or users could harm people [cbsnews.com]. (CBS News) Electronic Frontier Foundation: EFF said post-incident reports showed that longstanding cybersecurity practices could have prevented or substantially mitigated the Hugging Face incident, without requiring futuristic controls [eff.org]. (Electronic Frontier Foundation) "They are racing straight toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." — Jacob Coxon Sources: • Will A.I. Kill Us? Can It Hack My Bank Account? Your A.I. 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