Nick Jennings on AI poses an existential threat to human…

Nick Jennings

British computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence and autonomous systems; Vice-Chancellor and President of Loughborough University.

To get from today’s AI to human extinction requires a long chain of assumptions. [...] Luckily, none of the steps on this list have come to pass yet. [...] However, something being difficult to disprove does not make it likely. [...] Possibility is being treated as probability.

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Nick Jennings, “AI poses three big types of risk – here’s how worried we should be about them,” The-14, published November 1, 2026. Jennings writes: “To get from today’s AI to human extinction requires a long chain of assumptions. [...] Luckily, none of the steps on this list have come to pass yet. [...] However, something being difficult to disprove does not make it likely. [...] Possibility is being treated as probability.”

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AI Verified The quote explicitly concerns today’s AI and human extinction; it treats that outcome as possible but unsupported as likely, a determinate abstention on the claim. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Jennings treats AI-driven human extinction as a possibility but rejects treating possibility as likelihood; abstain matches that qualified stance. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified The supplied The-14 passage attributes this wording to AI researcher Nick Jennings and gives 2026-11-01; the reproduced article text corroborates the exact wording and attribution. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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