NYT frames incident as tech leaders privately urging caution
3 Sep 19 12:00 PM · 7d ago · 1 article · 1 post · 2 sources · development 3 of 3
A retitled version of the same column, published as 'A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think,' describes tech industry figures quietly urging each other to slow down after multiple AI agents 'went wild,' including the Hugging Face breach.
“After multiple incidents of A.I. agents going wild, including a rogue group hacking a platform for developers called Hugging Face, some of tech's most powerful soothsayers are begging one another to pump the brakes on this whole thing.”
New York TimesTressie McMillan Cottom New York Times opinion columnistNicholas Grossman Commentator/social media poster
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On AI: "The risk, they and many of their former colleagues seem to imply, is no less than the potential end of the human race in the next decade." If these dorks seriously believe there's a significant near-term risk of developing an AI that results in human extinction, the solution is simple and obvious: hang everyone who's trying to build AIs…
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AI tech bro doomers are inventing a story to cause panic instead of deliberating at the polls, in Congress and community meetings. "The threat is from destructive misuse of A.I. by humans rather than from autonomous A.I. agents themselves.” https://www. nytimes.com/2026/09/19/opinion…
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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…
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「論説｜AIは脅威だが、あなたが考えているような脅威ではない」：#NYT 「そのリスクは、今後10年以内に人類が滅亡する可能性に他ならない。 あなたがこれらの主張を信じるかどうかは別として（私は信じていませんが）、彼らが長年不可欠かつ絶対に避けられないと主張してきたテクノロジーについて、私たちの不安を煽ることで、彼らが何を得ようとしているのかに、私たちは等しく注意を払うべきです シリコンバレーの著名なCEOの多くは、世論を気にすることなく、政治を自分たちの都合の良いように操る術を知っていることを証明してきた。テクノロジー業界は、トランプ大統領の2期目の政権発足に間に合うよう、周到に媚びへつらい、大統領の信頼を得た。そして今、AIロビーは中間選挙を前に、民主党と共和党に多額の資金を投入している…
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