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Introduction. The first warnings about the dangers of artificial intelligence emerged in the mid-19th century, when novelist Samuel Butler published the essay Darwin among the Machines in 1863, predicting that machines would eventually achieve supremacy over humanity. While early literary and theoretical warnings existed, significant public and institutional attention did not follow until the 1970s (such as the 1972 Serbelloni group discussions) and the 2000s, with prominent figures like Bill Joy (2000), Stephen Hawking (2014), and Geoffrey Hinton (2023) raising alarms about existential risks. The latest development is Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old former researcher at Anthropic and OpenAI, who publicly resigned in September 2026, warning that AI labs are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." His viral post on X, which garnered over 115 million views, claims that major AI companies are not acting responsibly and that the technology could pose an existential threat to humanity by the end of the decade. This website explains and illustrates the risk, threat, and danger of the use of AI in various technologies.
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