kill
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Clark told the BBC that specifics around "kill switch" requirements and verification should be part of "the larger policy conversation" taking place around AI.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Don’t miss: Anthropic’s safety-first image takes a hit ahead of its massive IPO: ‘AI could kill all humans’
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Last week, a former engineer for OpenAI and Anthropic warned that AI’s chief architects “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Another Anthropic employee, who did not resign, stated publicly that "we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans", and that he thought the chances were greater than "10 percent within the next decade".
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Who would be willing to pay such a price to kill a worthless old merchant?
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
Marymount, which lost to No. 2 Mater Dei on Saturday in the championship of the Dave Mohs tournament, received 27 kills from Northwestern-bound Makenna Barnes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Last time a marine heatwave hit South Australia and Tasmania, there were starving penguins, fish kills, suffocating algae outbreaks, and jellyfish invasions.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
"If a power acts like Satan, picks targets like Satan, and kills like Satan, it's Satan," he posted on X.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
A hurricane kills hundreds in Haiti; the same storm merely inconveniences Florida.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
“I would never tear us apart. We were a family once, and we will be a family again. If it kills me, I will never again leave your side.”
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
The findings come in the aftermath of devastating floods in Nepal and Tibet, which killed more than 1,300 people and caused widespread destruction, highlighting the growing risks from a rapidly changing Himalayan environment.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Decades of conflict between predominantly Catholic nationalists seeking Irish unity and largely Protestant unionists who wanted to remain in the United Kingdom culminated in the Troubles, which killed more than 3,500 people.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
In 2021, a similar disaster in Uttarakhand killed more than 200 people after a massive flood swept through the Rishiganga and Dhauliganga valleys.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
“The flickering dream that there’s still a human role in mathematics isn’t completely killed off by this,” Timothy Gowers told me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Though curiosity killed the cat, Beatrice and I followed.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
Amazon.com is pausing its operations with 21 Air, the cargo carrier that was operating the Amazon-branded plane that crashed in Miami, killing five people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
A Delta Air Lines flight attendant was fired after posting "good riddance" in response to Kirk's killing.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Rather than focusing only on killing cancer cells directly, the strategy is designed to alter the surrounding environment that protects them.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
“Until the AI starts killing people, unfortunately, history would suggest we’re not going to do anything,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
“And they were harming no one. Why waste your money on killing animals who don’t need killing?”
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
