Jacob Coxon wrote that the people building AI believe it could kill everyone by the end of the decade and that no other activity poses this level of danger.
No event time was recorded for this claim — the text gave nothing to anchor it to, and a guessed date would be worse than none.
Standing
lens: Evidence-weighted Structural
No belief has been computed for this claim under Evidence-weighted yet.
What bears on it
Nothing supports or challenges this claim yet — untested, which is not the same as refuted.
Voices
- theguardian.com independent
Voices are counted, never weighed. How many people say a thing is structure worth seeing; it is not, by itself, a reason to believe it.
What the documents actually said
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- Jacob Coxon wrote that the people building AI believe it could kill everyone by the end of the decade and that no other activity poses this level of danger.
“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade … No other human activity poses this level of danger.”
Sources
Who and what it involves
Origin: extracted from ‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown · 2026-09-13 16:36