{"id":95633,"date":"2026-09-12T08:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=95633"},"modified":"2026-09-12T08:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:31:17","slug":"when-gdp-growth-might-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/09\/12\/when-gdp-growth-might-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"When GDP growth might kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As The Guardian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/09\/anthropic-researchers-ai-human-extinction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has noted this week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Artificial intelligence\u00a0could kill off humanity within the decade, according to three researchers with the industry giant\u00a0Anthropic, one of whom has quit his job in protest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The latest doom-laden predictions came in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hilbertspaess\/status\/2097476203863224394\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">posts<\/a>\u00a0on social media on Tuesday by a researcher who said he resigned because Anthropic and his previous employer,\u00a0OpenAI, were ignoring or, at best, mishandling their response to the threat.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But it's adding to GDP in the meantime. So that's OK then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As The Guardian has noted this week: Artificial intelligence\u00a0could kill off humanity within the decade, according to three researchers with the industry giant\u00a0Anthropic, one of<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/09\/12\/when-gdp-growth-might-kill\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95634,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95633\/revisions\/95634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}