Huffingtonpost iconHuffingtonpostSep 11, 2026 ~1 min source read

Therapists Share How To Stop Spiralling Over Doom-Filled Headlines About AI

"They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," he added. After a summer of climate change-fuelled heatwaves (and the anxiety that has created), some of us are now trying to navigate another looming existential threat – one that is hard to understand or comprehend.

Therapists Share How To Stop Spiralling Over Doom-Filled Headlines About AI

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"They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," he added.

After a summer of climate change-fuelled heatwaves (and the anxiety that has created), some of us are now trying to navigate another looming existential threat – one that is hard to understand or comprehend.

"For example, hacking critical infrastructure, building extinction-level bioweapons, there's a lot of ways that the AI could actuate itself in the world," he said.

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"They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," he added. After a summer of climate change-fuelled heatwaves (and the anxiety that has created), some of us are now trying to navigate another looming existential threat – one that is hard to understand or comprehend. "For example, hacking critical infrastructure, building extinction-level bioweapons, there's a lot of ways that the AI could actuate itself in the world," he said.

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