A 5-minute video of AI extinction without rogue AI: humans hand over control one step at a time
ronbodkin · x · 2026-09-15
- Ron Bodkin recorded a 5-minute video of an AI extinction scenario requiring no rogue AI or superintelligence: companies, governments and militaries hand control to AI one sensible decision at a time, until nobody can take it back.
- Prompted by Jacob Coxon's resignation from Anthropic and his warning that AI might kill everyone—150 million views in a day, citing self-improving AI fears and incidents like OpenAI agents breaching Hugging Face.
- Core claim: gradual control handover alone suffices for catastrophe; full article linked.
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