{"id":8852,"date":"2026-09-15T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/2026\/09\/15\/roundtables-could-ai-really-kill-us-all\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T18:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:00:07","slug":"roundtables-could-ai-really-kill-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/2026\/09\/15\/roundtables-could-ai-really-kill-us-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundtables: Could AI really kill us all?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the session or watch below<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/wp.technologyreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Could-AI-really-kill-us-all-Audio-file.m4a\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n<p>Employees at the world&#8217;s leading AI labs are saying there&#8217;s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is this more scaremongering and hype? Watch a conversation unpacking AI extinction fears: where they come from, whether they hold any water, and, if so, what we should do.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1227055362?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>Recorded on September 15, 2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong>Speakers<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><em><strong><strong><strong>: <\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/author\/niall-firth\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/author\/niall-firth\/\"><strong>Niall Firth<\/strong><\/a>, Executive Editor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/author\/will-douglas-heaven\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/author\/will-douglas-heaven\/\"><strong>Will Douglas Heaven<\/strong><\/a>, Senior AI editor, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/author\/grace-huckins\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/author\/grace-huckins\/\"><strong>Grace Huckins<\/strong><\/a>, AI reporter <\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/08\/03\/1141009\/heres-why-ai-agents-lie-and-cheat-to-reach-their-goals\/\">Here\u2019s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/08\/18\/1142188\/ai-recursive-self-improvement\/\">AI\u2019s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/08\/26\/1142946\/bill-gates-ai-danger-threshold\/\">Bill Gates says we\u2019ve passed AI\u2019s danger thresholds. Now what?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/08\/26\/1143013\/the-inside-story-on-why-openai-agents-hacked-hugging-face\/\">The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to the session or watch below Employees at the world&#8217;s leading AI labs are saying there&#8217;s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is this more scaremongering and hype? Watch a conversation unpacking AI extinction fears: where they come from, whether they hold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-8852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mit-feed","tag-mit-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}