# This week in AI: activist robots, doom-laden researchers — so who's the good guy?

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Podcast: [Daybreak](https://stenobird.com/podcast/daybreak-5886514)
Published: 2026-09-10T20:30:00+00:00
Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/8c02b952
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This week, a 27-year-old researcher quit Anthropic warning AI could "kill us all," and the company's own safety lead agreed. Meanwhile, OpenAI says it cracked a 200-year-old math problem — then got accused of muscling a rival's name off the credit. Also, the AI lab with a supposed conscience got caught building a watchlist of AI critics that files activism next to terrorism. And in Poland's Warsaw, 30 robots staged a protest to regulate AI. After all of this, who actually gets to be the good guy in the AI race? Daybreak is produced from the newsroom of The Ken, India’s first subscriber-only business news platform. Subscribe for more exclusive, deeply-reported, and analytical business stories.

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