The contagion of fear Bryan Cantrill responds to the tweet by former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon confirming that many Anthropic researchers believe AI "could kill us all by the end of the decade".
The contagion of fear
About this summary. This is a short, independently written summary of an article first published by Simon Willison. Cyber Security News did not report or verify the underlying story. Read the original: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/14/the-contagion-of-fear/
Source attribution: headline and facts are from Simon Willison (simonwillison.net). Summary method: excerpt of the source description. See our source attribution policy.
Related coverage
🏴☠️ Everest has just published a new victim : Securitas Group
[AI generated] Securitas Group is a Swedish multinational security services company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. It operates in the security industry, providing…
House and Senate members propose legislation for CISA to step up cyber defenses for biotech
Biotechnology doesn’t fall neatly into any one of the 16 government-designated critical infrastructure sectors that receive specialized and focused attention from feds…
New bill would create federal investigative body for AI-driven hacks
A new Democratic bill in Congress would establish a federal Cybersecurity and AI Board of Investigations to provide independent government oversight of cyberattacks…
Bipartisan Senate leaders introduce bill to bolster telecom cybersecurity in response to Salt Typhoon hacks
Two Senate committee leaders are introducing legislation to foster cybersecurity standards for the telecommunications sector nearly two years after the landmark Salt…
Scan for Good: Using AI to discover and fix high-priority exposures across public services and critical infrastructure
New initiative partners with under-resourced organizations to uncover, remediate exploitable risk at scale.
Google to critical infra orgs: Our AI scanners won't be evil, promise
Google has jumped on the AI-defense-for-critical-systems train with its Scan for Good initiative, and says that its threat-hunting models have already autonomously…