{"id":777260,"date":"2026-09-20T23:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T23:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777260\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T23:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T23:34:10","slug":"ai-human-extinction-fears-make-me-want-to-flee-to-an-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777260\/","title":{"rendered":"AI human extinction fears make me want to flee to an island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On an overcast Friday at Barry Island, Vale of Glamorgan, people&#8217;s reaction ranged from sceptical to concerned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chelsea Brown, 31, and her husband Luke Brown, 32, were out for a walk with their newborn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m nervous but also suspicious as leaders of AI companies say things when it suits them,&#8221; said Luke, who works in tech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That may be me trying to feel more comfortable about it, but I am sceptical because they do say things that either boost their stock or suit their agenda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he said by using AI at work he had seen how quickly it had progressed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It does scare me but the way I cope with it is I look at the news with a sense of scepticism,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chelsea, who works in marketing, said she feared what the speed of progress would mean for their new baby and four-year-old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve got quite a lot of anxiety about it, we talk about it quite a lot&#8230; it&#8217;s terrifying,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I really hope regulations come in a lot quicker than they did for social media. I don&#8217;t know why the regulatory process is so slow.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On an overcast Friday at Barry Island, Vale of Glamorgan, people&#8217;s reaction ranged from sceptical to concerned. Chelsea&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-777260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}