{"data":{"id":"cffd92a1-9058-47e4-af7e-30deb2dfdce6","title":"Could AI really wipe out humanity – six experts spell out the risks","summary":"The article examines claims that AI poses extreme risks to humanity, including threats to wipe out the internet through botnets (networks of compromised computers controlled remotely) and extinction-level dangers. Experts are divided: some researchers assign high probability percentages to these catastrophic scenarios, while critics argue these predictions lack scientific basis, concrete evidence, or falsifiability, noting that major internet infrastructure is well-defended and that humans, not AI systems, ultimately control critical decisions.","solution":"N/A -- no mitigation discussed in source.","labels":["safety","policy"],"sourceUrl":"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/15/could-ai-really-wipe-out-humanity-and-hijack-the-internet","publishedAt":"2026-09-15T17:54:48.000Z","cveId":null,"cweIds":null,"cvssScore":null,"cvssSeverity":null,"severity":"info","attackType":[],"issueType":"news","affectedPackages":null,"affectedVendors":["Anthropic","OpenAI","Google","Amazon"],"affectedVendorsRaw":["Anthropic","OpenAI","Hugging Face","Google","Amazon Web Services","Cloudflare"],"classifierModel":"claude-haiku-4-5-20251001","classifierPromptVersion":"v3","cvssVector":null,"attackVector":null,"attackComplexity":null,"privilegesRequired":null,"userInteraction":null,"exploitMaturity":null,"epssScore":null,"patchAvailable":null,"disclosureDate":"2026-09-15T17:54:48.000Z","capecIds":null,"crossRefCount":0,"attackSophistication":"moderate","impactType":["safety"],"aiComponentTargeted":null,"llmSpecific":true,"classifierConfidence":0.85,"researchCategory":null,"atlasIds":null}}