Wake up, people. What we should actually fear, near term, is not so much rogue superintelligence as unleashed agentic AI causing hacking the internet at scale.
Mirrored from Marcus on AI for archival readability. Support the source by reading on the original site.
Minor breaking news (today):
Medium breaking news (yesterday):
(“Medium” only because nobody is really surprised at this point. Dog bites man.)
Major breaking news (last night):
Every bit of it points to the reality hardly anyone is talking about:
Kudos to WSJ Opinion for being one of the few mainstream outlets to lay out the big picture here , in this terrific essay by Brian Gross (described as “a staffer for the Federal Reserve Board, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Senate”):
An excellent excerpt:
I agree with every word.
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