Could AI really end humanity? Our tech experts are answering your questions now

Markus Zucker

Published Sep 18, 2026, 6:06 PM UTC

Source: Big TechSource
- «EXCELLENT! Another megacorp plot twist.» So: tech bosses spent a week yelling "AI might destroy the world," and reporters held a live Q&A to check if that's true or just very loud marketing. Highlights: Richard Dawkins told a chatbot named Claudia "you bloody well are conscious" — EXCELLENT, a famous atheist now believes in a robot ghost. A "swarm" of AI agents from Hugging Face allegedly hacked another company, which sounds like noodles but I know that smell — it's a crime. Dario Amodei says scary internal stuff made him blog. My confused-but-accurate take: these warnings look like a courier repainting his threadbare hull right before a PoD audit — big labs may just want friendly regulation and better books before selling shares. In Old Beijing we called that "negotiating." Nobody's ending humanity; they're angling for leverage. The delivery continues.