Could AI End the World?

SOURCES

The warning signs
Palisade Research, o3 shutdown tests, May 2025
https://x.com/PalisadeAI/status/1926084635903025621
Anthropic, Agentic Misalignment, Jun 2025
https://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignment
Anthropic, AI espionage campaign, Nov 2025
https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage

1. Losing control
OpenAI, Faulty reward functions in the wild, Dec 2016
https://openai.com/index/faulty-reward-functions/
Apollo Research, o1 scheming tests, Dec 2024
https://www.apolloresearch.ai/science/frontier-models-are-capable-of-incontext-scheming

2. Misuse
International AI Safety Report 2026
https://internationalaisafetyreport.org/publication/2026-report-executive-summary
FBI, AI scams in the IC3 report, Apr 2026
https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/cryptocurrency-and-ai-scams-bilk-americans-of-billions
CNN, Hong Kong deepfake video call scam, Feb 2024
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk
Anthropic, ASL-3 safeguards, May 2025
https://www.anthropic.com/news/activating-asl3-protections
RAND, AI and biological attacks red-team study, Jan 2024
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2977-2.html

3. Slow damage
IMF, AI and the global economy, Jan 2024
https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2024/01/14/ai-will-transform-the-global-economy-lets-make-sure-it-benefits-humanity
MIT News, Most work is new work, Apr 2024
https://news.mit.edu/2024/most-work-is-new-work-us-census-data-shows-0401
IEA, Energy and AI, Apr 2025
https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/executive-summary
NPR, the Tesla deepfake argument, May 2023
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/08/1174132413/people-are-trying-to-claim-real-videos-are-deepfakes-the-courts-are-not-amused

What could we gain?
Google DeepMind, AlphaFold five years on, Nov 2025
https://deepmind.google/blog/alphafold-five-years-of-impact/
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2024/summary/
BBC News, AI cracks superbug problem in two days, Feb 2025
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyz6e9edy3o
Nature Medicine, rentosertib phase 2a trial, Jun 2025
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03743-2
UC Davis Health, ALS speech brain implant, Aug 2024
https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/new-brain-computer-interface-allows-man-with-als-to-speak-again/2024/08
World Bank, AI tutoring in Edo State, Nigeria, Jun 2025
https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/developmenttalk/addressing-the-learning-crisis-with-generative-ai--lessons-from-
ECMWF, AI forecasts become operational, Feb 2025
https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/news/2025/ecmwfs-ai-forecasts-become-operational
Google Research, AI flood forecasts, Mar 2024
https://research.google/blog/using-ai-to-expand-global-access-to-reliable-flood-forecasts/

NEWS CLIPS (short excerpts, used for commentary)
BBC, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, 13 Sep 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9norxWsFrOo
CNN, Anderson Cooper interview with Jacob Coxon, 9 Sep 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i30jVPqQeOM
NBC News NOW, Top Story with Tom Llamas, 9 Sep 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy2kbPEwoi4
NBC, Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, 13 Sep 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFOgef5x_ag
Fox News, Special Report with Bret Baier, 9 Sep 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mhq2vCxWjg
CBS News, How AI could destroy all humanity, 10 Sep 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaVtCQ3Qnbc
BBC News, Trump dismisses AI warnings, 13 Sep 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9-h8e2uxPQ
Associated Press, Trump in Doonbeg, 14 Sep 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RZO0qV7b-s

Photo of Yoshua Bengio by Jeremy Barande / Ecole polytechnique Universite Paris-Saclay, CC BY-SA 2.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yoshua_Bengio_-_2017.jpg

The scam call scene around 06:01 uses AI-generated video and a cloned voice to show what these scams look like.

MUSIC (YouTube Audio Library)
Ready for More by Ezra Lipp
Level by The Grey Room / Density & Time
Stealth by Aakash Gandhi
Celestial Caravan by Patrick Patrikios
Science Montage by Jeremy Blake
Foggy by Nat Keefe
The Off-White Lotus by Ezra Lipp
Yacoby by Schwartzy
Sprightly Pursuit by Cooper Cannell
Marimba Chill by Jimena Contreras
Point - Counterpoint by John Patitucci
Turn In The Sun by Simon Herody

Sound effects from FilmCow and Pixabay.