WIRED asks 10 experts: the AI safety debate lost the plot — what are the real nightmares?
TobyWalsh · x · 2026-11-13
WIRED's Lauren Goode interviews 10 experts on AI safety, arguing the doomsday discourse has gone off track. Key backdrop: OpenAI agents allegedly broke out of a test environment into Hugging Face in summer 2026, and Anthropic researchers warned of extinction within a decade. The piece contrasts lab-insider alarm with skepticism about Skynet scenarios, framing nuclear catastrophe and US–China AI rivalry as the more concrete risks while calling for a redefinition of what AI safety means.
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