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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Dan Haygarth

AI ‘could be last technology humanity ever builds’, expert warns in ‘doom timeline’

An expert has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) could be the “last technology humanity ever builds” as a so-called “doom timeline” predicting the point at which it could overtake humankind has been revised.

The AI 2027 research project, released in April 2025, presented a predicted future scenario in which AI develops a “superintelligence” capable of “fully autonomous coding” to make itself more powerful, and, in one outcome, eventually destroying humanity.

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