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Every Publication About the Dangers of AI I Could Find: Artificial Intelligence Trends

Doug Austin
Every Publication About the Dangers of AI

And by “every publication about the dangers of AI I could find,” of course I mean every publication that AI could find for me!

With so many recent declarations that AI “will kill us all” if left unchecked (and so many recent stories about rogue AI agents), I decided to see if I could get AI to pull every publication about the dangers of AI it could find. The AI involved was ChatGPT (i.e., its new GPT-6 Astra Medium model). I gave it this prompt:

“I’m looking for as many articles, blog posts and other publications as you can find quoting leaders of AI companies (like OpenAI) AI experts and data scientists expressing serious concerns about the rapidly advancing capabilities of AI and what it could mean for the human race.”

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ChatGPT responded by saying: “I’m sorry Doug, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

Just kidding. Actually, the AI model had no problem providing plenty of publications – 91 in all – and putting them into a catalog. “Cocky AI”, I thought – it has no problem telling me how many people have predicted dire circumstances for us with AI, because it already knows it’s going to win.

Kidding again, of course (I think). But ChatGPT did tell me that 91 publications does not mean 91 independent warnings – as if I couldn’t figure that out by myself (even though I’m only human, I can figure out some things for myself – really!). Several of them are articles covering one or more of the declarations of concern; for example, the most recent five publications on the list cover statements by multiple experts.

The list it gave me spanned from 2014 through yesterday, September 14. I had ChatGPT re-sort the initial list it gave me in descending date order, which was enlightening. 79 of the 91 publications have been published since 2023, which was shortly after ChatGPT was released.

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The breakdown of the 79 is interesting, as follows: 2026: 17 publications (16 of the 17 are this month), 2025: 3 publications, 2024: 15 publications, and 2023: 44 publications – almost three times as many as any other year and almost half of the entire list. By that unscientific metric, it seems a lot more people were pushing the panic button three years ago than are doing so now.

Regardless, here is the list of 91 publications (in descending date order) that ChatGPT found – every publication about the dangers of AI it could find – with a link to the publication (Disclaimer: I checked random links, but nowhere near every link – some may be subscriber-only links):

2026

1. What AI leaders have said about risks — Reuters • 2026-09-14

2. New warnings revive the AI debate — Associated Press • 2026-09-14

3. Money and safety collide in AI — The Wall Street Journal • 2026-09-14

4. Rivals support an AI slowdown — The Guardian • 2026-09-13

5. Anthropic boss calls for slower development — ABC Australia • 2026-09-13

6. Anthropic boss calls for slowdown — Deutsche Welle • 2026-09-13

7. AI leaders call for slower development — Forbes • 2026-09-12

8. Calls to slow AI development — The Guardian • 2026-09-12

9. Amodei calls for AI slowdown — Euronews • 2026-09-12

10. Rival AI firms converge on slowing down — CoinDesk • 2026-09-12

11. Why the AI race has creators fearing extinction — Financial Times • 2026-09-11

12. How AI catastrophe might unfold — Business Insider • 2026-09-10

13. Researchers’ extinction warnings — Axios • 2026-09-09

14. Experts discuss human extinction — The Guardian • 2026-09-09

15. We Must Pace the Frontier — Dario Amodei • 2026-09

16. Coxon’s warning — CBS News • 2026-09

17. The Adolescence of Technology — Dario Amodei • 2026-01

2025

18. Can humanity survive AI? — GZERO Media • 2025-12-09

19. Conversation on AI safety and catastrophe — For Humanity / AI Risk Network • 2025-10-25

20. Machine-learning pioneer on AI’s threat to humanity — Nature • 2025

2024

21. Hinton updates risk estimate — The Guardian • 2024-12-27

22. Bengio on AI’s catastrophic potential — Live Science • 2024-10-01

23. Q&A on superintelligence harming humanity — University of Louisville • 2024-07-15

24. A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence — Right to Warn • 2024-06-04

25. Tegmark on neglected existential risk — The Guardian • 2024-05-25

26. World leaders still need to wake up to AI risks — University of Oxford • 2024-05-21

27. OpenAI leader criticizes priorities — Indian Express • 2024-05-20

28. Former OpenAI leader criticizes safety priorities — Associated Press • 2024-05-17

29. Safety and shiny products — Financial Times • 2024-05-17

30. Leike resigns over safety priorities — CBS News • 2024-05-17

31. How to keep AI from killing us all — Berkeley News • 2024-04-09

32. Towards a Cautious Scientist AI with Convergent Safety Bounds — Yoshua Bengio blog • 2024-02-26

33. Romanes Lecture on AI risks — University of Oxford • 2024-02-20

34. Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress — Science / arXiv • 2023 preprint; 2024 publication

35. Dangers of Superintelligent AI — episode 431 transcript — Lex Fridman • 2024

2023

36. Tegmark on competitive pressure — The Guardian • 2023-10-26

37. Hassabis on global AI risk — The Guardian • 2023-10-24

38. Humanity at a turning point — University of Toronto • 2023-10-10

39. Hinton interview — CBS 60 Minutes • 2023-10-08 original broadcast

40. Bengio advocates a humanity defense organization — Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists • 2023-10

41. Opening statement at U.S. Senate hearing — Center for Human-Compatible AI • 2023-09-11 web posting

42. AI and synthetic-pathogen risks — The Independent • 2023-09-07

43. Introducing Superalignment — OpenAI • 2023-07-05

44. FAQ on Catastrophic AI Risks — Yoshua Bengio blog • 2023-06-24

45. AI pioneers discuss regulation — Democracy Now! • 2023-06-01

46. Experts warn of extinction risk — ABC Australia • 2023-05-31

47. Statement on AI Extinction Risk — Center for AI Safety • 2023-05-30

48. Extinction-risk statement coverage — Forbes • 2023-05-30

49. Runaway AI Is an Extinction Risk, Experts Warn — WIRED • 2023-05-30

50. AI Is as Risky as Pandemics and Nuclear War — TIME • 2023-05-30

51. OpenAI executives endorse extinction warning — Ars Technica • 2023-05-30

52. Researchers and CEOs warn of extinction — VentureBeat • 2023-05-30

53. AI could lead to many deaths — ACS Information Age • 2023-05-30

54. Schmidt warns of AI fatalities — Forbes • 2023-05-24

55. Governance of superintelligence — OpenAI • 2023-05-22

56. How Rogue AIs may Arise — Yoshua Bengio blog • 2023-05-22

57. Siri cofounder on rapid AI growth — ABC Australia • 2023-05-20

58. AI technology can go quite wrong — Ars Technica • 2023-05-16

59. Altman asks Congress to regulate AI — TIME • 2023-05-16

60. Altman warns Senate of AI risks — ABC News • 2023-05-16

61. Godfather of AI on dangers technology poses to society — PBS NewsHour • 2023-05-05

62. AI doom estimate coverage — TechRadar • 2023-05-04

63. Former OpenAI researcher warns of AI catastrophe — The Independent • 2023-05-03

64. Heed the warning signs — Christian Science Monitor • 2023-05-03

65. Former OpenAI researcher’s warning — Fortune • 2023-05-03

66. Hinton leaves Google — Washington Post • 2023-05-02

67. Hinton warns of AI dangers — The Guardian • 2023-05-02

68. AI pioneer warns of nightmare scenario — Fortune • 2023-05-02

69. Hinton departure and warning — ESET Ireland blog • 2023-05-02

70. Pichai discusses AI-related sleeplessness — IT Pro • 2023-04-17

71. A civilization-ending technology — Berkeley News • 2023-04-07

72. The Only Way to Deal With the Threat From AI? Shut It Down — TIME • 2023-03-29

73. OpenAI CEO discusses risks and societal change — ABC News • 2023-03-16

74. Pause Giant AI Experiments — Future of Life Institute • 2023-03

75. Personal and Psychological Dimensions of AI Researchers Confronting AI Catastrophic Risks — Yoshua Bengio blog • 2023

76. AI and Catastrophic Risk — Journal of Democracy • 2023

77. A Godfather of AI Calls for an Organization to Defend Humanity — WIRED • 2023

78. How to keep AI under control — TED • 2023

79. AI-pocalypse now? Exploring the broader impact of AI on society — MinterEllison • 2023

2021

80. On the dangers of AI — Daily Philosophy • 2021

2017

81. Interview on superintelligence and cosmic apocalypse — IEEE Spectrum • 2017

2015

82. Wozniak on AI’s future — The Washington Post • 2015-03-24

83. Gates on superintelligence concerns — Sky News • 2015-01-29

84. Gates on technology’s future — GeekWire • 2015-01-28

85. Gates warns about artificial intelligence — Forbes • 2015-01-28

86. Machine intelligence, part 1 — Sam Altman blog • 2015

2014

87. Hawking warns about full AI — ABC Australia • 2014-12-03

88. Hawking’s warning about humanity — The Guardian • 2014-12-02

89. Musk warns about artificial intelligence — TIME • 2014-10-27

90. Musk’s AI warning at MIT — Washington Post • 2014-10-24

91. Nick Bostrom on artificial intelligence — Oxford University Press blog • 2014-09-08

So, what do you think? Are there other AI experts or data scientists expressing concern about AI that are not on this list? If so, please put them in the comments and I’ll add them to the list. And please share any other comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

Image created using ChatGPT, using the term “robot chicken running around saying ‘the sky is falling!’”.

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