{"slug": "from-hallucinating-ai-chatbots-to-wiping-out-humanity-how-did-we-get-here", "title": "From hallucinating AI chatbots to wiping out humanity: How did we get here?", "summary": "The heads of leading U.S. artificial intelligence labs, including Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk, united over the weekend to call for slowing the technology's development, warning it could soon improve on its own and slip beyond human control. The remarks highlight the field's rapid advance from the hallucination-prone ChatGPT of 2022 toward recursive self-improvement (RSI), the idea that an AI system could improve itself with little to no human help, with each advance producing the next.", "body_md": "The heads of leading U.S. artificial intelligence labs came together in a rare show of unity over the weekend to slow the technology’s development, warning it could soon improve on its own and slip beyond human control.\n\nThe remarks, from fierce business rivals such as Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk, show how quickly AI has advanced, from the hallucination-prone ChatGPT of 2022 toward what many see as a critical milestone: recursive self-improvement (RSI).\n\nCentral to the field is the idea that an AI system could become capable of improving itself, with little to no help from humans, and allowing each advance to help produce the next one.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/from-hallucinating-ai-chatbots-to-wiping-out-humanity-how-did-we-get-here", "canonical_source": "https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/09/16/tech/explainer-ai-chatbots/", "published_at": "2026-09-16 01:14:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-16 01:37:12.736638+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-safety", "ai-policy", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Dario Amodei", "OpenAI", "Sam Altman", "xAI", "Elon Musk", "ChatGPT"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/from-hallucinating-ai-chatbots-to-wiping-out-humanity-how-did-we-get-here", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/from-hallucinating-ai-chatbots-to-wiping-out-humanity-how-did-we-get-here.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/from-hallucinating-ai-chatbots-to-wiping-out-humanity-how-did-we-get-here.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/from-hallucinating-ai-chatbots-to-wiping-out-humanity-how-did-we-get-here.jsonld"}}