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Kevin Okemwa

Anthropic researchers say next-generation AI models will reduce humans to "meat robots" in a spectrum of crazy futures

Close-up of a person's hand holding a smartphone and using the Opus 4 model within the Claude app from AI company Anthropic, Lafayette, California, May 22, 2025.

Existential threat to humanity remains one of the major concerns among people regarding the rapid prevalence of generative AI, aside from privacy, security, and job security. AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy warns there's a 99.999999% probability AI will end humanity.

In a recent podcast episode with Dwarkesh Patel, Anthropic researchers sounded an alarm on the rapid development and advancements in the AI landscape. Perhaps more concerning, researchers Sholto Douglas and Trenton Bricken claimed that humans might soon be reduced to "meat robots" for next-gen AI models (via Futurism).

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