This is what 2031 looks like…unless we sign away some more of our rights

Kit Knightly – Off-Guardian Sept 10, 2026

I’ve been documenting the increasingly hysterical coverage of ‘rogue AI’ for the last six weeks, predicting a major psy-op or false flag.

Well, kids it looks like the psy-op part is here. So far no false flag…but with the greatest level of hysteria since the early days of Covid circulating, maybe they won’t need to DO anything.

Maybe insane claims about a phantom threat will be enough.

Oh yes, did you know Artificial Intelligence has a “10% chance of wiping out humanity before the end of the decade”?

That’s the headline on every single mainstream paper, the trending topic on every social media platform, the talking point on every news channel.

Yes, from the producers of long-running hit show “CLIMATE CHANGE WILL KILL US ALL!” and the international sensation “COVID WILL KILL US ALL!” comes the latest experience in fear everyone is talking about.

And this latest wave is already being used to push new “regulation”, which should alarm anyone.

It all started with a young man, apparently named Jacob Coxon, who is allegedly a former AI researcher for OpenAI and later Anthropic.

Yesterday he announced his resignation from the latter, citing ethical concerns about the danger of “unregulated” artificial intelligence.

And, as is usually the case when an obscure person resigns from his job for supposed ethical concerns, his resignation was the subject of an exclusive article in the Wall Street Journal,

Oh and a simultaneously published thread on Twitter/X – from what is allegedly Coxon’s own  account that had – so far as can be seen – never been used before.

AMAZINGLY, within hours Coxon’s alarming claims had gone “viral”.

Now some old cynics out there will be thinking at this stage “hmmm correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t this look suspiciously like a narrative roll-out”?

But I’m sure the terminally gullible will hasten to reassure you that this is the way real life definitely works.

It’s just a coincidence that everyone across the entirety of the political punditry spectrum is engaged in amplifying one single message.

In another of those startling synchronicities which we don’t need to think about too much, at exactly the same time that Coxon was hitting the mainstream headlines, Joe Rogan – king of the mainstream alternative media – had another AI researcher on his show, spouting his own dire warnings.

AI experts have been crawling out of the woodwork, all keen to endorse Coxon’s position – or even call it an underestimate.

You must have seen Geoffrey “the godfather of AI” Hinton on the BBC, telling Victoria Derbyshire he agreed with Coxon’s risk assessment:

A 10% chance of killing every single person on Earth in the next three and a half years.

No, really.

They’re less clear how exactly that’s going to happen – but that’s not the important part. The important part is we need to DO something.

Everyone from Matt Walsh to Glenn Greenwald agrees on that.

And what do we need to DO?

Why, REGULATE of course. That’s what Coxon said in one of his MANY media interviews in the last twenty-four hours (and as someone who has been aware of Coxon’s existence since some time yesterday I can tell you I trust him absolutely):

He floats an AI non-proliferation treaty “like we have for nuclear weapons” – as if it’s a wildly coincidental brand new idea, and not a paraphrase of the same talking point dozens of people – including Bill Gates – have been suggesting for months.

But what would a global AI treaty actually look like? And what would it achieve? And who will be in control of implementing it?

Well, for a potential taste here’s what US Congressman Bill Foster tweeted earlier today:

A “hardened” internet?Is that what we can expect?

No more “untraceable access” to AI facilities? Restrictions on “anonymous payments”? What exactly does that mean?

Perhaps “proof of humanity” or “proof of personhood” should be required to use the internet? Or maybe the internet should have “borders”?

Then there’s the kill switches of course, both the US and UK are close to implementing those:

Last week, coincidentally, a group of Lords from the UK’s upper house was calling for “kill switches”, not just for AI programs, but for data centres in general [emphasis added]:

A group of peers is calling for the British government to be able to deactivate powerful AI systems and switch off the country’s data centres in the event of the tech posing a threat to national security

And who will have control of these kill switches and other control mechanisms? You? Or the usual suspects?

Of course if you’ve already allowed yourself to be manipulated into believing data centers are the Spawn of Satan, you’ll probably think  a kill switch is a great idea – and happily overlook that it’s just putting yet more control into the hands of institutions that already brought you the ‘covid’ scam  and 9/11.

If any such people are reading this  – does it occur to you yet that THIS was always the end point of those panic memes you hoovered up so uncritically?

Be careful what you wish for.

In this looming world of “regulated” AI, governments could be empowered to shut down access to sites, networks or even the internet as a whole in the event of alleged  “rogue AIs” becoming a “threat to national security”.

And if YOU or your output or you interactions get labelled as potential AI, or you have your access restricted purely based on your location or IP address?

Well, good luck telling anyone as you scream inside your soundproof bubble.

This can go further – and we’d be fools to just assume it won’t.

In the name of preventing the spread of “rogue AI” (or “rouge AI” according to half the hysterics on social media), the internet can have information bulkheads which can be used to quarantine sections, nations, networks or individual sites “infected” with digital these digital “invasive species”.

You may have to prove your humanity with face scans or similar, and there may be strict limitations on what regions and/or databases you can reach, how much of your money you can spend without additional checks, etc.

Even the restricted internet of today might look like freedom compared to the’ post-AI-Regulation’ revised world wide web.

And today’s security state might be something to look back on with nostalgia when the ‘post-AI-Regulation’ revised worldwide surveillance and supply line controls kick in.

But don’t think about any of that – that nice guy Jacob you never heard of a week ago is warning you.

Listen to him on the mainstream media platform they gave him.

Demand your government saves you.

I’m sure this time it really will.

 

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