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In the summer of 2025, I was in the process of buying a flat and had gotten to the point of signing the mortgage documents. Looking at the monthly payments stretched across 30 years, I started thinking seriously about my future as a software engineer.

AI has changed my work dramatically over the…

In September of 2025, I lost my faith and began truly grappling with the idea of death for the first time. My interests turned toward extending youth and life for all humanity, especially for my loved ones and me, until I read If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies and realised AI could evolve to the…

I wake up every day feeling dread about AI. As a writer and creative person, it's destroying my hopes for the future and everything I've ever enjoyed and dreamed of since childhood. I worry what it means for our environment, workplaces and mental health. I'm also terrified what's going to happen if…

I've been following AI developments more closely since seeing an interview with Connor Leahy earlier this year and just read about fake journalist, Michael Chen, which in these days of 'fake news' I find really worrying.

Trust in information is already in serious trouble. Now we have a fake…

With the current infrastructure, the UK will lose it's natural splendor. We'll be struggling to supply electricity and water to average citizens before 2030. Everyone will be impacted and the scum at the top won't care because their pockets will be lined from the exploitation. AI is not the future,…

As of today (25th July 2026), I have officially lost my job in Programming to AI. I have no clue what direction to go from this.

I'm a university lecturer based in the UK. One of my biggest worries about AI is the very real possibility of extinction risk - the thought that everything that humanity has built over thousands of years could all be lost in just the next few years. It makes me quite angry and frightened to think…

I am worried because no one knows how AI works or how to control it. I am concerned about the following:

• loss of control leading to human extinction
• permanent loss of all jobs
• a world where no person can create music, art or writing that in any way compares to what AI can make
• permanent…

I found out about AI risks during my university studies and the evidence seemed compelling. The power of these systems is just trending up and up and up, where throwing data and computers at the problem just seems to keep working. Instead of joining this industry boom, I decided to go start a PhD…

I feel AI is already making people dumber and slowly eroding human agency and decision making. The billionaires making the AI don't mind this as it makes people better consumers and easy to control.

I quit a job I used to enjoy because of the pressure to 'automate' everything ie become reliant on…

I joined PauseAI because I think AI safety is the most important problem facing the world right now.

It can be hard to grasp the severity of the situation, because current models still merely feel like a tool. But many people don't realise that AI companies are making them more and more autonomous –…

I work as an animation producer and as a coach mostly for freelancers. In animation if I am making a TV series, say, for Disney, the BBC or Netflix there might be 100 artists including writers, technicians, voice actors, engineers, animators, compositors, production crew involved in making it for…

By trade, I'm a lawyer specialising in cyber-incident response and contentious data privacy. I've spent my career working for and against the world's biggest tech platforms, and have worked for UK regulatory bodies.

I've seen first hand (and investigated) the terrifying power wielded by tech giants.…

My background is in climate change, and for well over a decade I believed the climate crisis was the biggest challenge that humanity had ever faced. Now, I believe that AI poses a risk that’s just as great, given that the technology remains largely unregulated and hasn’t been built with safety in…

I learned about the risks of AI at university, and the more I read, the more I was convinced that this was one of the biggest issues we face today as a species. I am worried that super-powerful AI will come in a very short time, maybe before 2035, and I don't think we are currently on track to…

Hi, I’m Abi and I’m a researcher based in Wales. When I talk to my loved ones about AI, the conversation is often filled with a sense of loss: loss of opportunity, loss of nature, loss of human agency and imagination, and most of all, loss of control. People are being told that they don’t have a…

I think AI's rapid development is a very serious threat our institutions should be taking more seriously. I joined PauseAI because I see that superintelligence would likely be misaligned and lead to catastrophe. We cannot afford to take that risk, and PauseAI are pushing for real action to pause…