{"id":396405,"date":"2026-09-11T01:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396405\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T01:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:14:13","slug":"ucf-professor-discusses-viral-warning-that-ai-will-kill-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396405\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF professor discusses viral warning that AI will &#8216;kill us all&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Personal estimation&#8217;: UCF professor on former Anthropic employee&#8217;s warning that AI will wipe out humanity<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789089253_161_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Default author avatar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A chilling warning from a former Anthropic researcher is sending shockwaves through the tech world. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">An employee who resigned from the AI company has warned that AI could &#8220;kill us all&#8221; within the next decade. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\"> Jacob Coxon, 27, who worked for OpenAI before Anthropic, said neither company is working responsibly. His concern: AI will soon be able to hack critical infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">In response, Anthropic said AI will bring both benefits and risks as the company continues to build new models with strong safeguards. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Qian Lou, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Central Florida, joined WESH 2 News on Thursday for a live interview to break down the new information. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">&#8220;I think that would be a serious problem. We should take this AI security problem seriously. But I think that&#8217;s a personal estimation from the Anthropic employee,&#8221; Lou said. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">Watch the full interview at the top of this story.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Personal estimation&#8217;: UCF professor on former Anthropic employee&#8217;s warning that AI will wipe out humanity ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2872,121704,5142,14135,139,141,140,73524,2684,7219,158087],"class_list":["post-396405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-ai","tag-anthropic","tag-congress","tag-gop","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-promise","tag-trump","tag-ucf","tag-us-adult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}