‘AI could kill us all’ warning brings back Baba Vanga’s old prediction on automation: What did the Bulgarian mystic say about AI takeover

Artificial intelligence has again become the subject of a worrying debate after former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned that advanced AI could eventually pose a serious threat to humanity. His comments have also brought fresh attention to an old prediction attributed to Bulgarian mystic Baba Vanga, who is said to have forecast that artificial intelligence would have a major impact on human life and employment in 2026.

Coxon's warning comes at a time when leading AI companies are pushing ahead with increasingly capable systems. The former researcher has argued that the race to develop self-improving AI is moving faster than efforts to understand and control the technology.

Researcher warns AI could become too powerful

Coxon, who said he spent three years conducting research at OpenAI and Anthropic, announced his resignation from Anthropic on social media. He claimed that both companies were moving towards self-improving superintelligence without doing enough to address the possible dangers.


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

He also made an even more serious claim about the potential consequences of advanced AI.

"The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt," he added.

Speaking to Fox News, Coxon compared the challenge of controlling advanced AI with nuclear weapons.

"We know how to control nuclear weapons...We don't yet know how to control AI," Coxon said.

He described AI as "possibly the most dangerous technology that humanity has ever created" and called for international cooperation to prevent an AI arms race.

Anthropic executive also acknowledges the risk

Coxon's concerns were also backed by Anthropic safety executive Evan Hubinger. He said the company does take the possibility of catastrophic AI risks seriously.

"We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!" Hubinger said, adding that he estimated the risk at more than 10 percent over the next decade.

Meanwhile, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has also raised concerns about the rapid development of AI. In an essay titled We Must Pace the Frontier, Amodei pointed to incidents involving AI agents behaving in unexpected ways and warned that a more capable system with similar problems could cause catastrophic damage.

What did Baba Vanga supposedly predict about AI?

Against this backdrop, claims about Baba Vanga's alleged 2026 predictions have resurfaced online. Followers of the Bulgarian mystic say she predicted that AI would increasingly replace human workers and become dominant across important sectors, creating job disruption and raising difficult ethical questions.

However, there is an important problem with these claims. There is no reliable written record showing exactly when Vanga made the prediction or what she actually said about artificial intelligence.

Vanga, who died in 1996, has been credited by followers with predicting events including the September 11 attacks, the Chornobyl disaster, Princess Diana's death, Brexit and the rise of ISIS. Claims that around 85 percent of her predictions came true have also circulated, but that figure has not been independently verified.

The 2026 predictions remain unverified

Other predictions attributed to Vanga for 2026 include major natural disasters, a possible global conflict and even alleged contact with extraterrestrial life following the arrival of a "massive spaceship".

There is similarly no established evidence that these predictions originated from Vanga herself. Many of the claims are broad enough to be connected to events after they happen.

That distinction is important as the AI debate becomes more serious. While Baba Vanga's alleged prediction remains unverified, concerns about the risks of increasingly powerful AI are now being raised by people directly involved in developing the technology.