# 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.

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