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The AI threat is real, it just isn’t the one in the headlines

SpeculationPolicySep 18, 2026

Anthropic assessed that a Chinese state-sponsored group used Claude Code for cyber-espionage against around thirty organisations, with AI doing 80–90% of the work. The author argues recent extinction warnings from Jacob Coxon, Geoffrey Hinton and Bernie Sanders distract from such present risks. Microsoft's AI head appeared on the BBC warning of a "new silicon species". The piece cites UK cyberattacks costing up to £1.9bn and warns that widely deployed agents combine data access, external exposure and outbound capability.

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