One question is dominating the tech world after an Anthropic researcher’s resignation this week: Could artificial intelligence kill us all? Jacob Coxon, who previously worked at OpenAI, said in an X post on Tuesday announcing his resignation from Anthropic that the “people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end
Read our conversation with Coxon, which has been lightly edited for clarity and brevity, below. WIRED: You’re not the first person to raise concerns that AI models could lead to an extinction event. People have been talking about this for years, and some for decades. Why do you think your message broke through? I think
We all have souls. That sentiment sits at the heart of “Pretty Babies,” Tyler-Marie Evans‘ feature debut, which world premieres Friday in competition at the Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival. The project attracted Jordan Wagner from Wagner Entertainment and also independent film icon Christine Vachon‘s Killer Films, who alongside star Ashley Benson took on producer roles.
Lovers and haters are erecting monuments for their favorite tech billionaire, Elon Musk. Just north of the US-Mexico Border, near Brownsville, Texas, sits Starbase, SpaceX’s massive rocket launch and development site. In 2025, the surrounding area became incorporated as the City of Starbase, with a population of more than 500 residents, though thousands of people
The Rosetta Stone helped experts learn to read Egyptian hieroglyphs.Credit: Juan Naharro Giménez/Getty Humanity may have once spoken many more languages than today, with tens of thousands in use between 3,000 and 1,000 years ago. This far exceeds the more than 7,500 unique languages currently used around the world. The findings, published July 23 in