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Your AI doomsday questions answered: ‘What, if anything, can people like me do about it?’

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After a week of alarming warnings about artificial intelligence’s potential to destroy the world as we know it, our technology reporters Aisha Down , Blake Montgomery and Dan Milmo answer your questions on the reality of the AI threat In realistic te…

Key facts

  • Reported by The Guardian and published Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:00:58 UTC.

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