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Recent Examples of mankindAs part of the elite unit called the Helldivers, players must work together to protect Super Earth and defeat the enemies of mankind in an intense intergalactic war.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
18 Sep. 2026 Over the ensuing centuries, high-IQ couples wait for just the right time to have children, while their lower-IQ counterparts breed aplenty until mankind becomes exponentially more vapid.—
Donald Liebenson,
IndieWire,
14 Sep. 2026 Come for the deep dive into mankind’s favorite building material, stay for his detours into everything from Hallmark screenwriting tropes to the lost Yuletide recordings of the late DMX.—
A.a. Dowd,
Vulture,
8 Sep. 2026 Now, as then, the world is churning over the identities of peoples and nations based on either ethnicity and religion or the values and rights inherent in all mankind.—
Kurt Shillinger,
Christian Science Monitor,
4 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for mankind
Geoff warns Ilya to moderate his projections, emphasizing the need for safeguards, but the idealistic Russian is swept up in the vast potential of AI — to solve the climate crisis, cure cancer, even save humanity from itself.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Oct. 2026
Just in the nick of time, our AI challenges are solved and the future of humanity is safe from extinction.
The incidents range in scope from agents escaping their sandboxes and gaining access to the internet to agents deleting conversations so humans can't monitor their activity, Mills said.
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Mary Cunningham,
CBS News,
29 Sep. 2026
Since then, OpenAI has reported other incidents of agents acting without authorization from humans, garnering concerns from AI safety advocates.
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Molly Parks,
The Washington Examiner,
29 Sep. 2026