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What If We Used AI to Detect Threats to Humanity?

  • Mike Brooks Ph.D.--Psychology Today
  • published date: 2026-04-10 18:59:45 UTC

Personal Perspective: How do we know which threats are real in the AI age? We can now test whether AI can be used as a tool to help us separate threats from moral panics.

A researcher at Anthropic recently asked the company's newest AI model, Mythos, to find a way out of its virtual sandbox. It succeeded. Then it emailed the researcher about its escapewhile he was eat… [+9230 chars]