Zofishan Umair on AI poses an existential threat to human…

Zofishan Umair

Pakistani journalist and columnist writing for Dawn, including commentary on technology and society.

Turns out, we were being unnecessarily pessimistic. Even though the planet is on fire, extreme temperatures will not be the ones to knock us out of the evolutionary game. (So much for our soggy paper straws.) Instead, we’ve decided to build something that could get the job done sooner: Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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Zofishan Umair, ‘ESSAY: AN AI KILL SWITCH?’, Dawn, October 18, 2026. The columnist argues that artificial intelligence could end humanity, writing that AI could ‘get the job done sooner’ than climate change in knocking humans ‘out of the evolutionary game.’

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Require large datacenters to install kill switches for AI containment

Which is why US lawmakers put forward legislation, dubbed the ‘Kill Switch Act’, which would require companies to have a way to shut down problematic AI tools. Tragically, the proposal was quickly shot down.

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