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Could AI kill us all? Professor weighs in on former Anthropic employee's claim

NPR | By Ayesha Rascoe

Published September 13, 2026 at 8:04 AM EDT

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks University of Southampton's Thomas Dekeyser about worries AI is becoming fatally out of control.

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