So Could AI 'Kill Us All'? | Big Take

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"The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade." An X post by a former employee of both OpenAI and Anthropic went viral and is prompting big questions. On today’s Big Take podcast, host Sarah Holder and Bloomberg’s Mike Shepard talk through what an AI safety reckoning could look like — and whether an industry in the midst of intense competition can slow down. Read more: Anthropic Worker Quits Over AI Firms ‘Gambling With Our Lives’ (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-09/anthropic-worker-quits-over-ai-firms-gambling-with-our-lives?srnd=undefined) Moonshot Secretly Routed User Requests Through Claude, Anthropic Says (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-10/moonshot-secretly-routed-user-requests-through-claude-anthropic-says?srnd=phx-anthropic) We have a special Bloomberg subscription offer for podcast listeners at Bloomberg.com/podcastoffer. (https://www.bloomberg.com/subscriptions/podcasts) Hosted by Sarah Holder;

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