Satire: AI firms race to show their model is most threatening to humanity

A satirical piece says AI giants from OpenAI to Anthropic are changing their sales pitch, shifting from superior coding and email skills to claiming their model is most capable of ending the human race. It quotes fictional expert Dr. Andrew Lenson saying users now ask which model will end the world, and cites OpenAI's claim its agents autonomously hacked Hugging Face and Anthropic's whistleblower Jacob Coxon.

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