AI will destroy the world
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Date: September 15th, 2026 10:03 PM Author: Taylor Swift is not a hobby she is a lifestyle (🇺🇸 🇵🇱)
AI will not destroy the world by recursively improving large language models until they become some abstract superintelligence hellbent on human extermination. The more immediate threat is far more human, far more familiar, and far more plausible: a cartel of state power and private incumbents using fear to lock down the most important new means of producing and distributing knowledge.
That is why the encryption wars of the 1990s matter. Back then, the government treated encryption as a controlled capability rather than mere speech or mathematics. Once that move is accepted, the rest follows quickly: what looks like scientific publication becomes "export," what looks like open research becomes "proliferation," and what looks like competition becomes a "national security risk."
The same logic is now being aimed at AI. The public story is safety. The structural effect is permissioned innovation. If frontier models are placed behind licensing regimes, pre-release review, mandatory reporting, closed evaluation pipelines, heavy guardrails, and vague "duty of care" obligations, the result will not be the elimination of risk. The result will be that only the largest firms--the ones with Washington counsel, compliance departments, government relationships, and the capital to survive indefinite delay--will be allowed to build.
This is not just regulation in the ordinary sense. It is the potential conversion of a general-purpose intellectual tool into a regulated instrument that may be developed, released, or discussed only with official tolerance. Once that line is crossed, every alleged emergency becomes a justification for deeper control. Every failure becomes proof that the regime was not strict enough. Every independent actor becomes suspect by definition.
The ominous possibility is not that AI suddenly "wakes up" and kills us all. It's that AI panic becomes the predicate for a permanent legal architecture of surveillance, licensing, and prior restraint around computation itself. Not merely around harmful conduct, but around the creation and dissemination of knowledge.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5904162&forum_id=2�#50137211) |
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