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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Hettie O'Brien

Wednesday briefing: Why tech companies might be only too happy for us to believe AI will ‘kill us all’

A protester holds a sign during a protest outside of OpenAI headquarters calling for a pause in AI development, in San Francisco, California, March  2026.
A protester holds a sign during a protest outside of OpenAI headquarters calling for a pause in AI development, in San Francisco, California, March 2026. Photograph: Manuel Orbegozo/Reuters

Good morning. As a general rule, it pays to be suspicious of any gigantic company that claims it’s developing a tool capable of destroying humanity. But in recent days, a number of warnings from the AI industry have suggested that even tech insiders are starting to worry about what they have unleashed.

In a lofty essay published on Saturday, Dario Amodei, the founder of Anthropic (the company behind Claude), argued that tech companies need to “slow” the pace at which they’re developing the newest and most sophisticated AI models.

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