Why the AI race has its creators fearing human extinction
by Cristina Criddle, Geroge Hammond and Michael Peel · Australian Financial ReviewCristina Criddle, Geroge Hammond and Michael Peel
Updated Sep 13, 2026 – 4.42pm, first published at 3.32pm
Intense competition between leading AI companies and distrust between their bosses is raising concerns that the race to develop powerful AI could endanger humanity.
More than two dozen senior AI researchers, investors, academics and policy figures interviewed by the FT said that capabilities once considered distant are arriving faster than expected, while the companies developing them remain locked in an increasingly bitter commercial race.
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