Why do the people building AI keep saying it might kill us?

Making sense of the week a researcher quit and frontier lab bosses told the industry to slow down.

By Brent Dixon, Dixon Strategic Labs · 2026-09-18 · Facts last verified 2026-06-12

Issue
AI for FIs, 2026-09-18
Author
Brent Dixon
Topics
Community Banks, Anthropic, Credit Unions, Risk Management, Governance, Agentic Ai, Openai, Ai Safety

Making sense of the week a researcher quit and frontier lab bosses told the industry to slow down.