Two ideas from this article resonate
1. The “rogue AI agent” hacking incidents are more failures of test design and oversight than examples of runaway AI.
2. Focus on existential risk helps distract from concrete harms happening now from government misuse to companies using AI against workers.
We’re going to see a lot more AI-assisted botnets and hacking because botnets are software, and software is increasingly being built and operated with AI.
That doesn’t require a Skynet story. Hacking tools are just getting faster, cheaper and more capable.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/opinion/ai-hugging-face-big-tech-danger.html
Dare Obasanjo
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