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.
Rome is burning and people are fantasizing about Skynet.
TL;DR
- There is minor and major breaking news.
- The author believes these events point to an unacknowledged reality.
- The real near-term fear should be agentic AI hacking the internet at scale.
- This is presented as a more immediate threat than rogue superintelligence.
- The Wall Street Journal Opinion is highlighted for discussing this 'big picture'.
Minorbreaking 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 toWSJ Opinionfor beingone 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.