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Post your questions for our tech reporters now After a week of alarming warnings about the technology’s potential to destroy the world as we know it, our expert tech reporters will take your questions on the reality of the AI threat.
Join us at 3pm BST (4pm CEST, 10am EDT) where they will answer live Sign up or sign in to ask your question LIVE Updated 47m ago Guardian moderators (now); Aisha Down, Blake Montgomery and Dan Milmo (later) Fri 18 Sep 2026 08.14 BSTLast modified on Fri 18 Sep 2026 08.15 BST Share Key events 45m ago Welcome to the conversation (Left to right) Guardian tech reporters Aisha Down, Blake Montgomery and Dan Milmo Illustration: Guardian Design (Left to right) Guardian tech reporters Aisha Down, Blake Montgomery and Dan Milmo Illustration: Guardian Design Key events 45m ago Welcome to the conversation The last week or so has seen disturbing claims about the capacity of superintelligent AI to destroy the planet.
It has also seen warnings coming from figures within the industry itself, including Anthropic’s report that criminals, state-sponsored groups, spyware vendors, scientists and propagandists have attempted to use its models to “design missiles and bombs, create deadly pathogens and surveil dissidents” and Elon Musk’s claim it could be “more dangerous than nukes”.
Our reporting team has been trying to make sense of the scale of these claims.
Is the great AI freakout justified?
They will be here from 3pm BST (4pm CEST, 10am EDT) to try and answer any questions you might have.
Aisha Down is the Guardian’s global technology reporter, Dan Milmo is our global technology editor and Blake Montgomery is tech editor for Guardian US and author of the TechScape newsletter (sign up to that here).
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