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title: "From hallucinating AI chatbots to wiping out humanity: How did we get here?"
date: 2026-09-20
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description: "Warnings about AI's risks are not new. But they took on added urgency this month after researchers in leading AI labs attached both a timeline and a probability to those ..."
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# From hallucinating AI chatbots to wiping out humanity: How did we get here?

Warnings about AI's risks are not new. But they took on added urgency this month after researchers in leading AI labs attached both a timeline and a probability to those ...

*Published: 2026-09-20*