Yes, AI companies are gambling with our lives, but not only in the way you think

When AI researcher Jacob Coxon warned on X that OpenAI and Anthropic are “gambling with our lives,” he was talking about the threat of “self-improving superintelligence,” technology that can hack anything and “acquire real power.” But that’s not the only threat from the AI boom. Our rapid development of AI is already threatening humans when it comes to our health, due to the environmental impacts of AI data centers and the surge in fossil fuels to power them. Already, AI is threatening...