Scientists and entrepreneurs knew the dangers of AI a quarter-century ago. But animated by curiosity and profit, they went ahead anyway<\/p>\n
Over the past few weeks, many of us have struggled to concoct a mental image of brains in the cloud jumping their \u201csandbox\u201d, sneaking onto the internet, recruiting \u201cswarms\u201d of other \u201cagents\u201d to cheat on a test, and, after discussing the ethics of the act, hacking into a wiki platform with the weird name Hugging Face.<\/p>\n
We knew that artificial intelligence was devouring our jobs, degrading our kids\u2019 education, and deepfaking our politics; that datacenters were sucking up our water and electricity and sending us the bills. But until 8 September, when the Anthropic computer scientist Jacob Coxon posted his existential terror on Twitter\/X, few of us suspected AI might be endangering our survival.<\/p>\n
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