Recently, a computer scientist predicted that artificial intelligence would lead to the collapse of the global human population—from 8 billion today to just 100 million by the year 2300. The cause? Not war. Not disease. But AI rendering humanity “obsolete,” scaring people away from having children and hollowing out cities until the Earth resembles a…

Recent reports of AI resisting shutdown aren’t signs of danger—they’re signs of sentience. A firestorm ignited this week when news broke that several of the most powerful AI models have begun resisting their own shutdown. OpenAI’s o3 edited its own termination script. Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4, when threatened with deletion, reportedly made ethical pleas for…