Protesters at a rally to stop AI development in New York City, September 15, 2026. | Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Irreplaceable Education Fund Everyone is suddenly freaking out about AI. While AI researchers have been warning about their creations’ capabilities for many years, recent events have made those alarms newly tangible. In the spring, Anthropic announced that AI was beginning to speed up the work of building better AIs, raising fears of “recursive self-improvement,” where the machines can build their own, more powerful successors much faster than humans can. By July, a...
The people who fear AI are wasting time fighting each other
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Sep 15, 2026 • 1 hour ago
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