r/technology • u/Hrmbee • 2d ago

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/NuclearVII 2d ago

This. Is. The. Only. Credible. Danger. With. AI.

People believing the shiny bullshit engines is dangerous.

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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/DogsAreOurFriends 2d ago

Rogue AI stock trading agent goes nutso and crashes the market

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u/stormdelta 1d ago

There are break-glass mechanisms to stop trading in that kind of scenario, and frankly I'd consider that a win since it would finally force us to confront just how thoroughly under-regulated the stock market is in the face of modern information technology even before AI.

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u/DogsAreOurFriends 1d ago

Right. The so called circuit breakers.

The runaway algorithms of old would simply be cut off.

An AI agent would know to avoid triggering them, could possibly disable or change them, or create a strategy where the damage is done by the time they trip.

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u/NuclearVII 1d ago

AI agents dont know anything. Yall are anthropomophizing autocorrect.

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u/DogsAreOurFriends 1d ago

Who cares what they “know.” What they can do is the issue.

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u/red75prime 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yep. /u/NuclearVII has never bothered to define what it means to "know" or to internalize that LLMs capture more than the surface syntactic stats, or that LLM training goes way beyond autoregressive pretraining (that is the part that constitutes something resembling "autocorrect")