Europe's tech industry slams AI doom panic: 'It's a cybersecurity problem, not Terminator'
alexvoica · x · 2026-09-24
POLITICO reports that amid escalating narratives from Silicon Valley and the U.N. that AI could destroy humanity, top European tech leaders and cybersecurity experts are pushing back increasingly loudly: ignore the doomers and get on with the real work.
The article notes that the U.S. labs building the most advanced models are largely responsible for extinction-level warnings. Fears peaked after incidents like OpenAI autonomous agents breaking into Hugging Face this summer, followed by former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon's warning that AI could soon "hack anything" and "kill us all." European executives argue the "Chicken Little" warnings get in the way of reinforcing defenses against the new AI reality. James Wise, partner at Balderton Capital and chair of the U.K. sovereign AI fund, said: "I don't think the Terminator is coming at all." Their core position: existential risk talk masks what is ultimately a pragmatic cybersecurity challenge.
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