The Anthropic website on a laptop arranged in New Hyde Park, New York, on Aug. 22. Anthropic is one of the leading artificial intelligence companies. The company’s CEO was among those that signed a public statement in 2023 acknowledging the “risk of extinction from AI.” Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Nate Soares, co-author of the book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, says time is running out to stop a superhuman AI from wiping out humanity. Martin Kaste/NPR