Is AI Actually Going to Kill Us All?

Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic researcher, resigned and warned that many AI developers assign a non-zero probability to AI wiping out humanity by 2030, a concern echoed by a senior Anthropic safety executive. WIRED’s Will Knight, Brian Barrett and Leah Feiger assess the alarm’s credibility, note Apple’s $2,000 foldable iPhone Duo launch, and report that the U.S. Census Bureau used faulty data in a Trump-cited report.