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For people who hear the warnings about AI and ask: what can I do?
The risks experts warned about are already happening
Each claim links to its source. Last reviewed: June 2026.
What’s next?
The people building AI say the rules need to catch up
“We, as the producers of this technology, have a duty and an obligation to be honest about what is coming.”— Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic
Source: Axios, May 2025
“…there are still some financial institutions that will accept the voiceprint as authentication. That is a crazy thing to still be doing. AI has fully defeated that.”— Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI
Source: Associated Press, July 2025
“…the pace at which we can think and adapt as societal institutions, compared to the pace at which the technology’s evolving, there seems to be a mismatch.”— Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google
Source: CBS News, 60 Minutes, Apr 2023
“A bad actor could repurpose those same technologies for a harmful end… how do we restrict access to these powerful systems to bad actors, but enable good actors to do many, many amazing things with it?”— Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind
Source: CNN (SXSW London), June 2025
The rules aren’t written yet
Every transformative technology arrives before its safeguards — not because regulation is impossible, but because harm has to become visible first. That threshold has been crossed. The risks researchers warned about are no longer hypothetical, and decisions being made right now will shape trust, safety, work, and democracy for decades. The future isn’t fixed — it’s being decided in real time.
Leading AI researchers on the harms already here
“They’re talking about reskilling, but the people who are losing their job will be losing their job in the next year or two.”— Yoshua Bengio, Turing Award–winning AI researcher
Source: Moneycontrol (India AI Impact Summit), Feb 2026
“Giving away tools that produce unlimited amounts of totally convincing false information, fake videos, impersonations, etc., is going to make things far worse.”— Stuart Russell, Professor, co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Source: The Innovator, 2023
Shouldn’t we listen?
What you can do right now
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A simple truth
We still get to decide.
AI will keep advancing. The question is whether safeguards keep up — so trust, safety, and democracy can survive what’s coming. Regulation isn’t anti-innovation. It’s how societies steer powerful tools toward public benefit.
This only works if ordinary people show up.
You don’t have to do everything. Even one message makes a difference.