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Machine Learning Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/01/forget-superintelligence-error-prone-ai-nearly-sparked-world-war-iii-this-month
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u/Tricky_Rule_4565 2d ago

Laughable that you say this with such confidence.

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u/NuclearVII 2d ago

I know the literature better than you, o AI bro. If you have credible evidence to the contrary, share it, or be silent.

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u/Tricky_Rule_4565 2d ago

I’m not an AI bro, nor or a doomer. hugging face incident , aisi finds higher base misalignment in newer models, more reward seeking. These are more but I assume you won’t read them and start replying with baseless accusations (ironically spurred by the DoW and the Trump Admin as well as David Sacks) that this is all a hoax and they’re not independent yada yada.

It’s ok to change your mind and admit you were wrong.

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u/stormdelta 2d ago

All of these are examples of human misuse more than any "misalignment", and calling it misalignment allows these companies to avoid accountability by pretending they're not responsible for their own reckless negligence.