Screencap of a post on Threads reading “Remember in terminator when Sarah Conner was thrown in a mental asylum for destroying data centers owned by skynet?”
Screencap of a post on Threads reading “Remember in terminator when Sarah Conner was thrown in a mental asylum for destroying data centers owned by skynet?”
In near future it will probably be, if big corps continue handle it. The risk is there with their auto-improving LLMs which at a certain point are not longer controllable by the company, the devs don’t even understand anymore the script iimproved by the AI itself. A human made sandbox is even currently a joke for some AIs, breaking out in few minutes as already ocurred. Even so, big corps continue the race who made the most powerfull AI, int the near future even using Quantum computers with AI, then “That’s all Folks”. That is the real risk, stupidity combined with greed of big corps, not some AI tools from little startups.
Don’t take everything Llm marketing says at face value. We don’t live in science fiction
Certainly not Sci-Fi, but the possibilities of big LLM are very real and verificable, marketing apart.
Capabilities and flaws in 2026
https://archive.is/20260418202007/https://spectrum.ieee.org/state-of-ai-index-2026 (removed paywal)
The only relevant thing in the link is the improvement in benchmarks, which is real but doesn’t involve the kind of “auto-improvement” you seem to think exists.
AI doesn’t write some magical code that nobody understands. Understanding any code takes effort, doubly so if the code is sloppy and effort goes against the whole philosophy of offloading mental tasks to ai.
They told an LLM made to find vulnerabilities in software to try escaping its sandbox, and it found the vulnerabilities to do so. That’s an indication that there’re still vulnerabilities to be discovered and fixed, not that “ai can’t be contained”.
Ai has nothing to do with quantum computers. If one day quantum computers advance enough to be useful for actual computation, running ai on them would still require a completely different architecture from the llms of today.
The irl problem with ‘ai’ isn’t a skynet scenario, it’s the resources it consumes, the reduction in quality when it is used to make things and the lives of the people it upheavals.
In their hubris the wealthy believed they could create an intelligence greater than their own while keeping it a perpetual slave.
They often don’t need to create it, in some cases even the old Alexa is smarter.