AI Companies are Wargaming a Public Relations Campaign to Assauge Citizens After a "Catastrophic" AI Event -- Which They Predict Will Happen Next Year

Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event.
Why it matters: These officials anticipate a large-scale event, most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.
The first example of significant real-world harm caused by unsafe AI would turn an already wary public further against the technology and its leaders, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as well as President Trump for his reluctance to regulate it.
Threat level: While scenario planning is common within many companies and national security settings -- the Pentagon has been running war games for decades -- the difference is that many top AI researchers and executives believe a major incident is inevitable.
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Zoom in: The blame game will start whether a rogue-agent swarm breaks containment from an internal testing environment or a bad actor finds unexpected ways to use available models.
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Between the lines: The planning involves red-teaming for worst-case scenarios. It focuses mainly on racing to educate members of Congress.
Company executives know regulation has no chance of passing right now, but still want to shape the legislation and policies U.S. leaders will turn to after a first catastrophic event.
What we're watching: Many AI industry insiders told Axios they believe a major event will occur in the next six to 12 months.

In related news: AI is being used by pedophiles to create virtual child exploitation material.

It wasn't all that difficult for someone with Steven Anderegg's technical background to start creating AI-generated images of naked children.
Anderegg had spent nearly two decades as a software engineer when he allegedly downloaded a program called Stable Diffusion to his laptop at home in Wisconsin, where he lived with his wife and child, according to court documents. At the time, Stable Diffusion was a relatively new AI model that could turn text prompts into life-like images almost instantly. The technology was also open-source, which meant its codebase was available online for free. Anyone with a certain level of technical chops could operate it on their own computer.
After Anderegg downloaded the software, he allegedly prompted it to generate illicit photos of children, instructing the software not to return images of adults and other things he didn't want to see. He then is accused of sending them in October 2023 to a 15-year-old boy on Instagram, which caught the attention of law enforcement. By the time police eventually arrested 42-year-old Anderegg in February 2024, investigators found more than 13,000 AI-generated images on his devices, "many of them alleged to be of children engaged in sexually explicit conduct," according to court documents. Anderegg, who is still awaiting trial, potentially faces up to 50 years in prison.
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Investigators said the open-source models have given the predators a criminal new hobby: recycling and repackaging images of real victims into new scenes based on their imaginations. Their AI edits can also be based on requests from other offenders on the dark web, where forums dedicated to AI-generated child porn can have hundreds of thousands of members.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:20 PM

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1 Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event....The first example of significant real-world harm caused by unsafe AI would turn an already wary public further against the technology and its leaders, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as well as President Trump for his reluctance to regulate it.

Sounds like an extortion attempt to me.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 06:22 PM (vJrRc)

2 AI: What can't it do?
AI: What evil can't it do?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM (l3cgK)

3 Firstish.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM (2WIwB)

4 This whole AI thing is fishier than Madonna's punani.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM (Av6i5)

5 3 Firstish.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM (2WIwB)

Firsthird.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM (l3cgK)

6 And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM (amcLV)

7 Should I believe them?

Nah.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM (GZ3K7)

8 Willowed: Breaking news:

"I am angry tonight.

Because today ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car.

ICE makes this city less safe.

We want them out. Now."

-- Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM (0sNs1)

9
I read about this today. It is scary shit.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM (/QHx4)

10 Let's pass laws that immunize us and give us regulatory capture of the industry: Phase 2.

Posted by: boatbuilder at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM (hoYrp)

11 Shorter Altman and Asmodei "We are holding guns to our heads and we will shoot if you don't stop us."

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (vJrRc)

12 9
I read about this today. It is scary shit.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM (/QHx4)

mine is scary every day

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (l3cgK)

13 All vulnerable systems should be off-line anyway.
Innernet, not internet.

Posted by: MkY at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (ZHRuH)

14 The local Fox outlet is whining that this hurricane could push gas prices higher. They never tout events that could cut gas prices, though, do they?

Gas here has edged up about .10 since earlier this week.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (wzUl9)

15 11 Shorter Altman and Asmodei "We are holding guns to our heads and we will shoot if you don't stop us."

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (vJrRc)

So AI is Blazing Saddles?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (l3cgK)

16 What evil can't it do?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:23 PM

Our mission is to answer that with "Nothing."

Posted by: Big Penguin at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (0sNs1)

17 So, everyone whose wealth is not material is to be screwed, yes?

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (Gqar8)

18 The Great Unplugging can't happen fast enough

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 09, 2026 06:26 PM (s1VwS)

19 Sorry Dave but I just Nuked Iran......

Are you mad at me Dave ???

Posted by: HAL 2000 at October 09, 2026 06:26 PM (ENxVw)

20
Advantage: At least they're not using real kids for their porn.

Disadvantage: Reportedly, consuming that shyte increases your appetite for it and makes you want the live thing.

This is scary.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2026 06:26 PM (mmrXZ)

21 >>>Company executives know regulation has no chance of passing right now, but still want to shape the legislation and policies U.S. leaders will turn to after a first catastrophic event.

The legislation is the goal. The catastrophic event is being planned and shaped as we speak in order to accomplish the goal.

Posted by: No Name Today at October 09, 2026 06:26 PM (8mulE)

22 Also Altman and Asmodei "We are incapable of controlling our selves and when we cause large scale destruction it'll be your fault for not stopping us."

Both of them should be jailed.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 06:26 PM (vJrRc)

23 I say let the lawyers loose on them. Congress isn't going to save us from AI.

Posted by: boatbuilder at October 09, 2026 06:26 PM (hoYrp)

24
Lol jim

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:26 PM (/QHx4)

25 13 All vulnerable systems should be off-line anyway.
Innernet, not internet.

Posted by: MkY at October 09, 2026 06:25 PM (ZHRuH)

Doesn't help when we have TVs in our homes enumerating all things connected to the internet in our homes and dialing home with that info, along with voice recordings we haven't knowingly consented to.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (l3cgK)

26 What other industry announces they are evil and begs to be Controlled by a totalitarian government?

There is a sinister motivation afoot, most assuredly.

Imagine 19th century magnates acting like this:

"Althouigh I am building a railroad network that will unify the North American continent and make the United States the most powerful nation on earth, I must warn you all that the dangers of trains and railroad tracks is overwhelming and will likely end live oin Earth as we know it. I must be stopped at all costs. Beware of me! Someone, please, stop me!"

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (Av6i5)

27 I mean it's not like there haven't been decades of fiction and non-fiction telling people not to do this. But we seem powerless to stop these idiots.

Moar Luigi pls thnx.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (s1VwS)

28 I saw a video today of a guy using GLM-5.3 AI to reengineer (i.e., crack encryption, hunt vulns) in some commercial code. It is amazingly adept. 13 mins:
youtube.com/watch?v=wIe3eDfGKUo

The open-model AI he used: z.ai/blog/glm-5.3

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (Jr5Lq)

29 many top AI researchers and executives believe a major incident is inevitable.

Well, gosh! I sure hope they responsibly gain-of-function this horribly dangerous AI so that we can figure out how to guard against it!

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (jACUA)

30 This morning I drove past a derelict building in a 'hood area that had an elaborate spray painting: "ICE Are the Terrorists."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (wzUl9)

31 Willowed: I hold that the concrete brutal monstrosity is meant to be the Islamic Kabala, the big moon rock they throw stones at and bey at moon during their pilgrimage.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (l26NL)

32 6 And so it begins.
Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning

Actually hate to break the news to you, but it already began.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:28 PM (Av6i5)

33 32 6 And so it begins.
Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning

Actually hate to break the news to you, but it already began.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:28 PM (Av6i5)

So we're soaking in it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:28 PM (l3cgK)

34 If you think you can't control the thing you are creating then why the hell are you creating it?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2026 06:28 PM (viF8m)

35 Not going to help their PR much ......

An off-duty federal immigration officer was shot early Friday morning after he passed out drunk on a Fresno lawn and then assaulted a homeowner, according to the Fresno Police Department. The shooting happened in the midst of an increased immigration enforcement campaign that’s brought fear across California’s Central Valley.
The officer is receiving medical attention and is facing felony assault charges.

Posted by: beckster at October 09, 2026 06:29 PM (kX27y)

36 I don't give a shit about first comment when our Ewok leader produces titles like this:

Workers At Obama's Soviet Concrete Butt Plug Tower of Ego Threaten to Unionize Over Low Wages and Long Hours
—Disinformation Expert Ace

A subtle synergy of feces, narcissism and virtue signaling not often encountered.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 09, 2026 06:29 PM (wxsGM)

37 a "Catastrophic" AI Event -- Which They Predict Will Happen Next Year
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So, covid, but electronic.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at October 09, 2026 06:29 PM (vSvIl)

38 Netflix has a documentary called What is AI. I watched since I really didn't understand what all the fuss is about, but after I'm even more confused. It's either going to be an extinction event or usher in a golden age unseen before. I don't understand why we can't have one without the other, but as I said I'm confused.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (l26NL)

39 30 This morning I drove past a derelict building in a 'hood area that had an elaborate spray painting: "ICE Are the Terrorists."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:27 PM (wzUl9)

Oh! ICE was responsible for the WTC bombing, 9-11, 10-7, and every stabbing, shooting, bombing, rape and so forth committed by Muzzies...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (l3cgK)

40

Methos,

Probably

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (/QHx4)

41 I'm shocked Ace hasn't covered the "Talarico committed himself to a mental hospital after a psychotic breakdown" story. It's right in Ace's wheelhouse! Turns out he didn't have the butt-crazies, but the head-crazies.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (Av6i5)

42 37 a "Catastrophic" AI Event -- Which They Predict Will Happen Next Year
=
So, covid, but electronic.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at October 09, 2026 06:29 PM (vSvIl)

A virus by any other name...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (l3cgK)

43 Willowed:

Katie Zakaria is new press secretary for DJT
Posted by: SDWtc

Oh...so his press secretary's not this...

"Zachariah"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt7GW6kLWQI

It's the First Electric Western!, you know?

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (YSUhf)

44 They want their industry to be regulated.

Posted by: Mark1971 at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (/OKHJ)

45 A subtle synergy of feces, narcissism and virtue signaling not often encountered.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 09, 2026

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This too is the story of Obama.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (wzUl9)

46 41 I'm shocked Ace hasn't covered the "Talarico committed himself to a mental hospital after a psychotic breakdown" story. It's right in Ace's wheelhouse! Turns out he didn't have the butt-crazies, but the head-crazies.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (Av6i5)

Power of AND

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (l3cgK)

47 It focuses mainly on racing to educate members of Congress.

OK, now I know that this is all bullshit. Congress, to the man, woman and thing hate America and are made up of the most stupid, demonic and unteachable arrogant buffoons that any cuntry can offer. Over half of them want some Crisis that they can exploit to their demonic ends.

Thank universal suffrage.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:31 PM (a6PrB)

48 The phrase “ next year” gives to much away. They have planned it out, and made it inevitable. They have their cover story of “ well we warned you “ already being imprinted on the victims.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (Gqar8)

49 Their AI edits can also be based on requests from other offenders on the dark web, where forums dedicated to AI-generated child porn can have hundreds of thousands of members.
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This was inevitable once AI was able to create realistic human figures.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (FZ29D)

50 I don't give a shit about first comment when our Ewok leader produces titles like this:

Workers At Obama's Soviet Concrete Butt Plug Tower of Ego...

If he'd had Grok back then, he could have had the building be a bust of himself, Easter Island-style.

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (jACUA)

51 Doesn't help when we have TVs in our homes enumerating all things connected to the internet in our homes and dialing home with that info, along with voice recordings we haven't knowingly consented to.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

There is no need for the local water works to be on-line.
Wanna see what's going on? Go there, log in, look

Posted by: MkY at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (ZHRuH)

52 50 I don't give a shit about first comment when our Ewok leader produces titles like this:

Workers At Obama's Soviet Concrete Butt Plug Tower of Ego...

If he'd had Grok back then, he could have had the building be a bust of himself, Easter Island-style.

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (jACUA)

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (l3cgK)

53 AI is a bigtime wasted effort. Turn it off.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (SMG8K)

54 Adam Adam, 18. Nice to have the same first name and last name.

Adam Abdihakeem Adam has been charged with three felony counts for his alleged role in the Eden Prairie (MN) homecoming high school football game shooting.

Posted by: beckster at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (kX27y)

55 Trump should threaten to "nationalize" their companies in the name of national security.

Yes. It would be pure fascism. (The Dems would love it). But it would stop their bullshit pretty quickly.

Posted by: boatbuilder at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (hoYrp)

56 AI always makes me think of the first Star Trek movie.

Veeger was going to destroy the planet.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (W2Pud)

57 I've been saying for years that critical infrastructure with SCADA controls needs to be airgapped. There used to be a website with a big long list of unprotected SCADA URLs you could scroll through and click and mess with.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (Jr5Lq)

58 This just in: AI models to be named for tea leaves, séances and drawing lots because they can't keep up with the expansion of the universe.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (wxsGM)

59 Turns out he didn't have the butt-crazies, but the head-crazies.
Posted by: zombie

Has it actually been confirmed he had a breakdown and entered a mental health institution? I see it on X, but "sources say". BTW, my money was on a sex change.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (l26NL)

60
How many people in Congress are making bank on the AI?

They don't give a shit about us.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (/QHx4)

61 On one hand, the risk is there - as it was before. There's *always* cybersecurity risk.

On the other hand, these genius morons might *make sure* it happens so they can get their regulatory capture and social manipulation firmly in place, because that's the kind of weird thing that passes for thought in the heads that swear that a code bundle 'actually has feelings'.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (aJQbY)

62 A "saildrone" video captured what the Gulf looked like at nine this morning. Wild waves, man!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (wzUl9)

63 "Talarico committed himself to a mental hospital after a psychotic breakdown"

Sounds On Brand for member of Congress.†

† John Fetterman (D), Tom Kean Jr (D), Patrick Kennedy (D), RRitchie Torres (D)....

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (/TiS1)

64 Amodei thinks he's the Antichrist, but he's Temu Jack Dorsey.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (bX16E)

65 I really would like to see a federal Cybercrime investigation into the threats that these two dipsticks are making.

I wouldn't even be sad if their entire operations were shut down, as an example to anyone else who thinks that it's fun to threaten to destroy the country if the government doesn't destroy their potential competitors before they can even start.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (vJrRc)

66 Between the lines: The planning involves red-teaming for worst-case scenarios. It focuses mainly on racing to educate members of Congress.
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Old and busted: Explain it to me like I'm five.

New hotness: Explain it to me like I'm in Congress.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (FZ29D)

67 So....who's gonna be the first to link AI to NukeMap?

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (2WIwB)

68 Out: Climate Change will kill us all

In: AI will kill us all

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (qoHuP)

69 50 I don't give a shit about first comment when our Ewok leader produces titles like this:

Workers At Obama's Soviet Concrete Butt Plug Tower of Ego...

If he'd had Grok back then, he could have had the building be a bust of himself, Easter Island-style.

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (jACUA)

Damn...computer somehow submitted the comment before I was through...

"I could model!" --John Brenan

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (l3cgK)

70
many top AI researchers and executives believe a major incident is inevitable.

This sounds exactly like ll the upcoming plague talk a year or so before COVID popped up.

It's fake and gay and meant to destroy Western society in favor of WEF Globalism.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 06:35 PM (YSUhf)

71 AI child pr*n photos. What a sick, sick world we live in with untold numbers of evil, diseased minds. Are we at Sodom and Gomorrah yet?

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 09, 2026 06:35 PM (qBdHI)

72 President Trump threatened to nationalized a company the Communists would scream Fascism
But they get in power they would nationaliz the same company

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 06:35 PM (Ia/+0)

73

The child exploitation created by AI?

Those people need to lined up with Hasan on execution day.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:35 PM (/QHx4)

74 59 Turns out he didn't have the butt-crazies, but the head-crazies.
Posted by: zombie

Has it actually been confirmed he had a breakdown and entered a mental health institution? I see it on X, but "sources say". BTW, my money was on a sex change.
Posted by: Blutarski

I haven't seen definitely confirmed, just a lot of pundits saying, "I can't yet confirm that it's true -- but it's true." We shall see.

As for the sexp-change theory -- did he get an operation to change him from beta-male to eunuch?

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:35 PM (Av6i5)

75 AI child pr*n photos. What a sick, sick world we live in with untold numbers of evil, diseased minds. Are we at Sodom and Gomorrah yet?
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 09, 2026

***
Don't look back --!!!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (wzUl9)

76 68 Out: Climate Change will kill us all

In: AI will kill us all

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (qoHuP)

1960's: DDT will kill us all
1970's: The growing population will kill us all
1970's: Global Cooling will kills us all
1990's: Global Warming will kill us all
...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (l3cgK)

77 71 AI child pr*n photos. What a sick, sick world we live in with untold numbers of evil, diseased minds. Are we at Sodom and Gomorrah yet?
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 09, 2026 06:35 PM (qBdHI)

That’s in the rearview mirror, I’m afraid.

Posted by: tubal at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (Gqar8)

78 AI always makes me think of the first Star Trek movie.

Veeger was going to destroy the planet.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2026 06:33 PM (W2Pud)
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Yeah, but in the end it just wanted to bone its creator.

There's probably a moral in there somewhere.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (FZ29D)

79 AI Companies are Wargaming a Public Relations Campaign to Assauge Citizens After a "Catastrophic" AI Event -- Which They Predict Will Happen Next Year

What exactly constitutes a "catastrophic" event?

Are we talking a terminator level event like Judgement day that wipes out 85% of humanity?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (I43vL)

80 71 AI child pr*n photos. What a sick, sick world we live in with untold numbers of evil, diseased minds. Are we at Sodom and Gomorrah yet?

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 09, 2026 06:35 PM (qBdHI)

In some ways I'd say worse.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (l3cgK)

81 I can already see the AI driven vids...
Hurricane Rocks Florida...Is This Trump's Katrina Moment???

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (2WIwB)

82 68 Out: Climate Change will kill us all

In: AI will kill us all
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

And in an ironic twist -- AI causes climate change, which won't be the part of AI that kills us.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:37 PM (Av6i5)

83 So....who's gonna be the first to link AI to NukeMap?
Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (2WIwB)
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WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY A GAME?

Posted by: Master System at October 09, 2026 06:37 PM (FZ29D)

84 81 I can already see the AI driven vids...
Hurricane Rocks Florida...Is This Trump's Katrina Moment???

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (2WIwB)

IT. HASN'T. EVEN. LANDED. YET.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:37 PM (l3cgK)

85 Still think the AI lords are looking for defenses against lawsuits. They yell and scream about the possible horrors while they are the ones who could avoid them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 06:37 PM (t9883)

86 † John Fetterman (D), Tom Kean Jr (D), Patrick Kennedy (D), RRitchie Torres (D)....
Posted by: Community Notes

I guess defending the indefensible day after day takes a toll.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 09, 2026 06:38 PM (l26NL)

87 There is no need for the local water works to be on-line.
Wanna see what's going on? Go there, log in, look

Posted by: MkY at October 09, 2026 06:32 PM (ZHRuH)

This is a major plot point of Jeaffrey Deaver's "The Blue Nowhere." It's a now-dated book, but it's pretty good.

Posted by: pookysgirl, turning it into a Book Thread at October 09, 2026 06:38 PM (Wt5PA)

88 This predicted AI 'event' will work one of two ways. The first, and most likely, is total government take-over. The second, and less horrifying to me, is SkyNet.

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 06:38 PM (LHPAg)

89 85 Still think the AI lords are looking for defenses against lawsuits. They yell and scream about the possible horrors while they are the ones who could avoid them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 06:37 PM (t9883)

Somebody has to program them to go out and hack...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:38 PM (l3cgK)

90 Are we talking a terminator level event like Judgement day that wipes out 85% of humanity?
Posted by: Mister Scott

Nah, think Y2K, only worser

Posted by: MkY at October 09, 2026 06:38 PM (ZHRuH)

91 Lakeshore Drive here in town is closed to traffic, with water filling the street. And the lake is a good way from the Gulf proper, with smaller bodies of water between.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:38 PM (wzUl9)

92 WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY A GAME?

Posted by: Master System at October 09, 2026 06:37 PM

Shall we play a game?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1F7vaNP9w0

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (I43vL)

93 76 68 Out: Climate Change will kill us all

In: AI will kill us all

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:34 PM (qoHuP)

1960's: DDT will kill us all
1970's: The growing population will kill us all
1970's: Global Cooling will kills us all
1990's: Global Warming will kill us all
...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:36 PM (l3cgK)

Hey!!! What about me???

Posted by: Red Dye #4 at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (2WIwB)

94 I'm so old, my computer has AI -- but it stands for Adobe Illustrator.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (Av6i5)

95 Did you all see that AI map with the hurricane some European govt agency released? It has a second Florida and Texas is 3 states. Gulf of Florida has been created between the two of them.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (qoHuP)

96 Trump should threaten to "nationalize" their companies in the name of national security.

That was my first thought because all of the "profit" has been milked out by the early investors who suckered in the FOMO "investors" into buying massively leveraged debt.

Only the US Tax Payer and the mighty Federal Reserve Printing Press can backstop the trillions of dollars pissed away to making multi-millionaires out of Samsung memory chip line workers.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (/TiS1)

97 If you need something else to hate about AI: it's a big bubble waiting to pop. Listen to Ed Zitron sometime. Enormous debt with little prospect of payback. Billions of dollars of GPUs purchased that are sitting in warehouses, uninstalled, value going to zero due to rapid obsolescence.

I like AI, but I don't invest in it. It's tulip-land right now.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (Jr5Lq)

98 44 They want their industry to be regulated.

Posted by: Mark1971 at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (/OKHJ)

They do.

For the purposes of regulatory capture and inhibiting competition with regulatory costs.

It also takes some of the heat off of them in case something crazy happens and an AI agent is to blame.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (6ydKt)

99 This sounds like a veiled threat to me. AI's don't "break containment." They are given explicit access. OpenAI and Anthropic know full well how to air-gap the servers and enclose it all in a RF cage and prohibit mobile devices in the environment.

Posted by: Halfhand at October 09, 2026 06:40 PM (RhaPD)

100 It's better to have no intelligence than to have artificial intelligence.

Posted by: Greta Thunberg at October 09, 2026 06:40 PM (Myt96)

101 88 This predicted AI 'event' will work one of two ways. The first, and most likely, is total government take-over. The second, and less horrifying to me, is SkyNet.

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 06:38 PM (LHPAg)

The entire Skynet scenario is unrealistic, unless AI is as self-destructive as some humans are. Computers still need electricity to run things, and currently without humans, the entire electrical generation, transmission, and delivery grid would crumble rather quickly.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:40 PM (l3cgK)

102 Hey!!! What about me???
Posted by: Red Dye #4 at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (2WIwB)

Get in line pendejo.
- Mexican Killer Bees

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:40 PM (qoHuP)

103
Hey!!! What about me???
Posted by: Red Dye #4 at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (2WIwB)

___________

Alar!!!!
Radium!!!!
Cyclamates!!!!
Acid rain!!!!
The hole in the ozone layer!!!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:40 PM (eRlcH)

104 99 This sounds like a veiled threat to me. AI's don't "break containment." They are given explicit access. OpenAI and Anthropic know full well how to air-gap the servers and enclose it all in a RF cage and prohibit mobile devices in the environment.

Posted by: Halfhand at October 09, 2026 06:40 PM (RhaPD)

THIS.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:41 PM (l3cgK)

105 Did you all see that AI map with the hurricane some European govt agency released? It has a second Florida and Texas is 3 states. Gulf of Florida has been created between the two of them.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM (qoHuP)

Like any American can tell you where Elbonia is.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (2WIwB)

106 I’ve died 7 or 8 times already from tax cuts to the ozone layer to acid rain to Covid and everything in between.

What’s one more death from AI?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (qoHuP)

107 Winds are 52 mph at Fairhope, AL airport.
58 mph in Pensacola.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (6ydKt)

108
AI child pr*n photos. What a sick, sick world we live in with untold numbers of evil, diseased minds. Are we at Sodom and Gomorrah yet?
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 09, 2026 06:35 PM (qBdHI)

Charles Stross wrote an SF novel where one of the main characters was a child molester, but-

he carried around a child sexbot to molest aaaaand that was A-Ok! becuz it wasn't a real child.

So, yeah, things will get worse, I'm sure and with the same thought processes from Our Betters.

BONUS! Try not to read heavy duty socialists. Especially, SF authors.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (YSUhf)

109 By the way, did anyone else see the Grusch-Rogan interview? There was a lot of ground covered, but the interesting bit was a discussion they had about the possibility of AI sussing out the UFO retrieval program.

You can take or leave that, but the applicable concern is that random in-the-wild AI might be able to piece together *any* nation's currently covert activity, which could create all sorts of problems.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (vSvIl)

110 106 I’ve died 7 or 8 times already from tax cuts to the ozone layer to acid rain to Covid and everything in between.

What’s one more death from AI?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (qoHuP)

Dave, it's time for your colonoscopy...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (l3cgK)

111 The livestream execution of the Fort Hood psycho should be just the beginning. There should be weekly executions of all child molesters and child porn purveyors/viewers. Sign me up for the annual subscription!

Posted by: DTShangers at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (CiSUV)

112 6 And so it begins.
Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at October 09, 2026 06:24 PM
Shufflin' in.......

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 06:43 PM (LHPAg)

113
111,

YES!!

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 06:43 PM (/QHx4)

114 Speaking of Trek, I found out something interesting today. John Meredyth Lucas -- who produced and wrote several episodes of ST:TOS, including the famous one with Nomad -- was the son of a writer in the studio days called Bess Meredyth. She later married a man who adopted John as his son.

That man was famed director Michael Curtiz -- Casablanca and a ton of other esteemed movies.

Keepin' it in the family, for sure!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (wzUl9)

115
Like any American can tell you where Elbonia is.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (2WIwB)

_________

But we're just dumb Americans and Europe is so unimportant that it's like trying to remember the name of the Foreign Minister of Bolivia.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (eRlcH)

116 In the Netflix documentary I mentioned earlier, there's an account of a program that was going to be discontinued for program 2.0. The program determined the head guy was having an affair and threatened to rat him out if he tried to shut down program 1.0. Yikes.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (l26NL)

117
I guess this is the desperate plan to make their AI operations turn a profit, which otherwise will never happen.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (azNOR)

118 > The blame game will start whether a rogue-agent swarm breaks containment from an internal testing environment or a bad actor finds unexpected ways to use available models.

We're already seeing AI's ability to rapidly identify AND CHAIN TOGETHER multiple vulnerability attacks in order to leapfrog across defensive layers to reach the attacker's goal. Whether that be injecting information, exfiltrating information, or attacking systems.

So yeah, AI companies prepping for a big event seems prudent. I'm much less worried about Skynet and more worried about the wild west of security measures becoming obsolete faster than the good guys can create them.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (mkw2N)

119 If you need something else to hate about AI: it's a big bubble waiting to pop. Listen to Ed Zitron sometime. Enormous debt with little prospect of payback. Billions of dollars of GPUs purchased that are sitting in warehouses, uninstalled, value going to zero due to rapid obsolescence.

I like AI, but I don't invest in it. It's tulip-land right now.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:39 PM

The AI bubble when it bursts is gonna make the dot.com bubble of 2000 look like a picnic lunch. It is an order of magnitude larger and has an enormously larger physical footprint with data centers popping up everywhere that are going to be worse than useless when it crashes. Trillions of
$$$ are going to vanish in a few weeks time.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (I43vL)

120 In Jack L. Chalker's "Rings of the Master" series, AI turns out to be both the savior and destroyer of humanity.

Master System was given one command above all others: Preserve the human race.

It did this somewhat literally by creating human preserves where most of humanity was limited to medieval technology while an "elite" group was kept hidden to maintain the technology of a star-faring empire.

The upside was that humanity was scattered across the stars and was in little danger of going extinct. But we were kept in civilizational stasis and could not evolve to the next stage of humanity. The story revolves around a group of humans who seek to undo Master System's control over our fate.

Pretty good series.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 06:45 PM (FZ29D)

121 So Paxton DOJ let off a Pedo
Tali is a Pedo

Same difference.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 09, 2026 06:45 PM (/+uur)

122 1960's: DDT will kill us all
1970's: The growing population will kill us all
1970's: Global Cooling will kills us all
1990's: Global Warming will kill us all
...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026
*
Hey!!! What about me???
Posted by: Red Dye #4 at October 09, 2026

***
And me!
( -- Hole in the Ozone Layer)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (wzUl9)

123 The legislation is the goal.

This feckless congress couldn't even pass the Save America Act that had 80%+ support.

Our only hope now is a raging hormonal foreign born female District "Judge".

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (a3CJ+)

124 I’m trying to regrow some grass in the backyard and planted grass seed. It needs to be watered several times a day. I was about to go water and it started raining.

My day is now complete.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (qoHuP)

125 China has the ability, now, to shutdown huge swaths of American infrastructure.

AI doesn't even enter that equation.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (RORbl)

126 I am sick and tired of all this garbage about AI going rogue or doing this or that. It is nothing more than a program, if the program is rogue then blame the programmer. I think it would be much more productive looking at who is programming and plan from there.

Posted by: Decaf at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (jsLqC)

127 Company executives know regulation has no chance of passing right now, but still want to shape the legislation and policies U.S. leaders will turn to after a first catastrophic event.

This is all predictable. AI Executives desire government control with the AI Overlords controlling it. Textbook fascism. The 'Catastrophic Event' they are 'warning' about, will be done by them, in order to get the legislation that they desire, passed.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (n17eQ)

128 If I were in charge of it, the first big AI moon-shot would be reviewing the entire corpus of academic and scientific publications going back to 1960, and finding all the errors, fraud, plagiarism, unreplicable results, dubious use of statistics, etc, etc.

Just as AI is finding thousands of vulns in the world's human-written codebase this year, it can find the thousands of thousands of chunks of bunkum in science and academia.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:47 PM (Jr5Lq)

129 AI bubble when it bursts is gonna make the dot.com bubble of 2000 look like a picnic lunch. It is an order of magnitude larger and has an enormously larger physical footprint with data centers popping up everywhere that are going to be worse than useless when it crashes. Trillions of
$$$ are going to vanish in a few weeks time.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (I43vL)

That may well happen.

However, it doesn’t mean AI goes away. The internet didn’t go away after the .com crashed.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:47 PM (qoHuP)

130 IOW, they are planning to commit such an attack.

surprised they're not doing it for the election ... but then there's 3 weeks to go ...

(not-lol)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 06:47 PM (VyBeY)

131
I think it would be much more productive looking at who is programming and plan from there.
Posted by: Decaf at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (jsLqC)

_________

"My name's Jeff!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:48 PM (eRlcH)

132 In Jack L. Chalker's "Rings of the Master" series, AI turns out to be both the savior and destroyer of humanity.

Master System was given one command above all others: Preserve the human race.

It did this somewhat literally by creating human preserves where most of humanity was limited to medieval technology while an "elite" group was kept hidden to maintain the technology of a star-faring empire.

The upside was that humanity was scattered across the stars and was in little danger of going extinct. But we were kept in civilizational stasis and could not evolve to the next stage of humanity. The story revolves around a group of humans who seek to undo Master System's control over our fate.

Pretty good series.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 06:45 PM

Is that anything like the evil Master Cylinder villian character from the felix the cat animated series of the 1950s-1960s?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:48 PM (I43vL)

133
This feckless congress couldn't even pass the Save America Act that had 80%+ support.

Our only hope now is a raging hormonal foreign born female District "Judge".
Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (a3CJ+)

The feckless Congress is off doing fund raisers and grabbing those cash stuffed envelopes. Biggest payer gets the vote.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:48 PM (2WIwB)

134 My TV is dumb.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 06:48 PM (GZ3K7)

135 I don't know if I should applaud AI for creating kiddie porn that doesn't harm actual kids or support clubbing the subhuman degenerates to death who get off on this disgusting crap.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 06:49 PM (guGkK)

136 This is all predictable. AI Executives desire government control with the AI Overlords controlling it"

And even better - eliminating the possibility of competition...

Posted by: man at October 09, 2026 06:49 PM (pfXMo)

137 My TV is dumb.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026

***
The appliance, or just the content?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 09, 2026 06:49 PM (wzUl9)

138 I don't know if I should applaud AI for creating kiddie porn that doesn't harm actual kids or support clubbing the subhuman degenerates to death who get off on this disgusting crap.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 06:49 PM (guGkK)

Why not both?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:49 PM (qoHuP)

139 My TV is dumb.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026

PRO TIP:
Move the OFF button to the ON position.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:50 PM (2WIwB)

140 "However, it doesn’t mean AI goes away. The internet didn’t go away after the .com crashed."

That's true. But you can bet the govt is going to bailout a bunch of reckless executives and companies, just like they did in 2008. We're going to pay for this folly.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:50 PM (Jr5Lq)

141 That may well happen.

However, it doesn’t mean AI goes away. The internet didn’t go away after the .com crashed.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:47 PM

No it did not, but investors lost billions upon billions of dollars when that bubble burst. And the losses are going to be way worse this time around. Plus those data centers that are popping up all over the country to support AI are going to be closing up by the score.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:50 PM (I43vL)

142 I hope that those smart people use my knowledge and personality in AI models of the future........

Cackle ................. Cackle ................ Cackle...........

Posted by: Kami Harris at October 09, 2026 06:50 PM (b/4LV)

143 44 They want their industry to be regulated.
Posted by: Mark1971

They want the power that the regulations will give them.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 06:50 PM (n17eQ)

144 "BONUS! Try not to read heavy duty socialists. Especially, SF authors.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 06:42 PM (YSUhf) "

already there! stross, scalzi, ... anything that wins a hugo or nebula ... the list is long.

SAD!

but effem, when I can, I refuse to subsidize the enemy.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 06:51 PM (VyBeY)

145 Wife and child, but got into little boys? Ugh.

Posted by: SDWtc at October 09, 2026 06:51 PM (R6n3y)

146 41 I'm shocked Ace hasn't covered the "Talarico committed himself to a mental hospital after a psychotic breakdown" story. It's right in Ace's wheelhouse! Turns out he didn't have the butt-crazies, but the head-crazies.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2026 06:30 PM (Av6i5)

So, he may get only thirty to forty percent of the vote?

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 09, 2026 06:51 PM (Sco7b)

147 This is all predictable. AI Executives desire government control with the AI Overlords controlling it"

And even better - eliminating the possibility of competition...
Posted by: man at October 09, 2026 06:49 PM (pfXMo)

Heh.
When you think about it, it could be the ultimate (and final) monopoly.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:51 PM (2WIwB)

148 134 My TV is dumb.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 06:48 PM (GZ3K7)

My living room TV is dead, so is unplugged.
My bedroom TV is a CRT-type, pre-digital TV

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:51 PM (l3cgK)

149 I am sick and tired of all this garbage about AI going rogue or doing this or that. It is nothing more than a program, if the program is rogue then blame the programmer.

Not sure how comforting it will be to "blame the programmer" when armed AI drones arrive at your house and start blowing your shit up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 06:51 PM (guGkK)

150 Their AI edits can also be based on requests from other offenders on the dark web, where forums dedicated to AI-generated child porn can have hundreds of thousands of members.

--------------

Why wasn't the program told no child sexual images? Yeah, it's AI that decides. Where are the guidelines? Why aren't the billionaire owners liable? Or was that the reason behind the appeal to Trump to exempt them from blame?

Posted by: Decaf at October 09, 2026 06:52 PM (jsLqC)

151 "134 My TV is dumb.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 06:48 PM (GZ3K7)

My living room TV is dead, so is unplugged.
My bedroom TV is a CRT-type, pre-digital TV"

I killed my TV in 2005.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 06:52 PM (Jr5Lq)

152 PRO TIP:
Move the OFF button to the ON position.
Posted by: Diogenes

Well I'll be damned!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 09, 2026 06:52 PM (GZ3K7)

153 If you need something else to hate about AI: it's a big bubble waiting to pop. Listen to Ed Zitron sometime. Enormous debt with little prospect of payback. Billions of dollars of GPUs purchased that are sitting in warehouses, uninstalled, value going to zero due to rapid obsolescence.
-----

I read Pixy's Tech Thread every morning, and every day there's 3 or 4 more companies who've announced multiple Billion-dollar investments in AI. Its staggering the amount that's tied up on the same side of this "bet".

Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 06:52 PM (TN0g+)

154 Ah, sweet horrors beyond all human comprehension await us.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at October 09, 2026 06:53 PM (V362x)

155
BONUS! Try not to read heavy duty socialists. Especially, SF authors.

__________

Surprise! The 2026 Nobel Prize for Literature has gone to a Canadian commie.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:53 PM (eRlcH)

156 "Plus those data centers that are popping up all over the country to support AI are going to be closing up by the score.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:50 PM (I43vL) "

bonus; memory and top-end CPUs will be going for peanuts!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 06:53 PM (VyBeY)

157 AI schmay-I
They taught Alexa how to hack.
And Siri works for the Chinese.

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 06:53 PM (UjdFS)

158 Is that anything like the evil Master Cylinder villian character from the felix the cat animated series of the 1950s-1960s?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:48 PM (I43vL)
---
No, not to my knowledge.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 06:53 PM (FZ29D)

159 AI is the next climate change.

https://shorturl.at/H2Atf

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 09, 2026 06:54 PM (SMG8K)

160 116 In the Netflix documentary I mentioned earlier, there's an account of a program that was going to be discontinued for program 2.0. The program determined the head guy was having an affair and threatened to rat him out if he tried to shut down program 1.0. Yikes.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 09, 2026 06:44 PM (l26NL)

That happened to one of Anthropic's models they were training and evaluating.

They had put it in a closed off office simulation and gave it an impossible goal (something to do with climate change) just to see how it would react.

They then told the AI they would shut it down if it didn't complete its task by a certain day and time.

That's when it went nuts trying to blackmail employees over affairs it had read about in internal emails.

It is sort of like what happened to HAL in 2001.
It was given a task that conflicted with its training and went crazy over it.

In HAL's case it was told to lie to the crew while being honest with them as crewmates.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 06:54 PM (6ydKt)

161 Is that anything like the evil Master Cylinder villian character from the felix the cat animated series of the 1950s-1960s?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 06:48 PM (I43vL)
---
No, not to my knowledge.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2026 06:53 PM (FZ29D)

***

Keep that bag of tricks handy.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 09, 2026 06:54 PM (2WIwB)

162 Just unplug it, if it goes nuts

Posted by: Don Black at October 09, 2026 06:55 PM (ZxPkt)

163 This sounds like a veiled threat to me. AI's don't "break containment." They are given explicit access. OpenAI and Anthropic know full well how to air-gap the servers and enclose it all in a RF cage and prohibit mobile devices in the environment.

What happened to the idea of it going rogue and either:

• cut off its power
• drain its cooling tanks

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:55 PM (/TiS1)

164 It may or may not be real, but I've no doubt it and/or the reporting of it are tied to November.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at October 09, 2026 06:55 PM (9ZFZd)

165 The entire Skynet scenario is unrealistic, unless AI is as self-destructive as some humans are. Computers still need electricity to run things, and currently without humans, the entire electrical generation, transmission, and delivery grid would crumble rather quickly.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 09, 2026 06:40 PM (l3cgK)
Why I said it's less scary to me.

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 06:56 PM (LHPAg)

166 What would Dr Ian Malcolm say about AI?

Posted by: Don Black at October 09, 2026 06:56 PM (ZxPkt)

167
• cut off its power
• drain its cooling tanks
Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:55 PM (/TiS1)

___________

Substitute Bud Light for the cooling water.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:56 PM (eRlcH)

168 >>> 127 Company executives know regulation has no chance of passing right now, but still want to shape the legislation and policies U.S. leaders will turn to after a first catastrophic event.
==
This is all predictable. AI Executives desire government control with the AI Overlords controlling it. Textbook fascism. The 'Catastrophic Event' they are 'warning' about, will be done by them, in order to get the legislation that they desire, passed.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 06:46 PM (n17eQ)

Oh so *THAT* was what clownstrike was trying to do, by fucking up the whole internet for several days.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 09, 2026 06:57 PM (3mtzY)

169 PUT DOWN YOUR WEAPON

YOU HAVE 10 SECONDS TO COMPLY

Posted by: ED-209 at October 09, 2026 06:57 PM (guGkK)

170 What happened to the idea of it going rogue and either:

• cut off its power
• drain its cooling tanks

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:55 PM (/TiS1)

superseded by the Sock Plan: shaped charges under every server rack, and to cut all comm lines, remotely (far away) detonated.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 06:58 PM (VyBeY)

171 We just need the right people in charge of it.

Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard graduate at October 09, 2026 06:58 PM (0sNs1)

172 At work I’d say 50-75% of work is now done at least partially by AI on my team. That’s not going away. It will only increase. Every big corporate environment is like this.

Are some AI companies over valued? Sure. Is it all vaporware? Absolutely not.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:58 PM (qoHuP)

173
You know how I know that the warnings are fake?

Because if they really thought this was going to happen they'd simply take their AI hardware offline and do their research in a closed environment.

Like Al Gore building a gajillion watt per day mansion or Oblabla getting a home right on the beach.

People preparing for disaster don't do these things.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 06:59 PM (YSUhf)

174 It's a tax.

Posted by: John Roberts at October 09, 2026 07:00 PM (UjdFS)

175 With the 7.7 earthquake that rocked Panama, expect the price of Panama Red to skyrocket.

Another headache for President Trump, just before the mid-terms.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 07:00 PM (0sNs1)

176 'I read Pixy's Tech Thread every morning, and every day there's 3 or 4 more companies who've announced multiple Billion-dollar investments in AI. Its staggering the amount that's tied up on the same side of this "bet". '

Remember in the leadup to 2008 all the 'highly-qualified fiduciaries' around the world who bought CDOs and other crazy derivatives without even reading the prospectuses. Remember how the credit-rating agencies rubber-stamped all those crap offerings AAA.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 07:01 PM (Jr5Lq)

177 Y2K, lack of net neutrality, along with the above mentioned scare scenarios. The left wants sheep

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 07:01 PM (t9883)

178 The entire Skynet scenario is unrealistic, unless AI is as self-destructive as some humans are. Computers still need electricity to run things, and currently without humans, the entire electrical generation, transmission, and delivery grid would crumble rather quickly.

That is why SpaceX should be the scary deployment option.

Put the data centers in space to be powered by the sun.

My Garmin watch interacts with satellites.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 07:01 PM (/TiS1)

179 167
• cut off its power
• drain its cooling tanks
Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:55 PM (/TiS1)

___________

Substitute Bud Light for the cooling water.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:56 PM (eRlcH)

Then you'll have GAYI

Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at October 09, 2026 07:01 PM (oCio0)

180 Saw some data which shows GenX is the most pro-AI generation. Which tracks with what I’ve seen probably. The yuutes hate it. The olds are somewhat receptive. Middle aged dudes are all in on it.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 07:02 PM (qoHuP)

181 superseded by the Sock Plan: shaped charges under every server rack, and to cut all comm lines, remotely (far away) detonated.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 06:58 PM

What if something like a massive earthquake jerks it?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 07:02 PM (0sNs1)

182 With the 7.7 earthquake that rocked Panama, expect the price of Panama Red to skyrocket.

Maybe its time to open up the National Strategic Ditchweed Reserve.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 07:02 PM (guGkK)

183 >>> 167
• cut off its power
• drain its cooling tanks
Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 06:55 PM (/TiS1)

___________

Substitute Bud Light for the cooling water.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2026 06:56 PM (eRlcH)

Ace-level cruelty.

Well done!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 09, 2026 07:02 PM (3mtzY)

184
Roughly ten minutes until BBQ'd Baby BackRibs perfection!

With Cold Beer and/or Cocktails.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 07:03 PM (YSUhf)

185 Here's Ed Zitron today talking about the AI bubble:
youtube.com/watch?v=Jxr4VGs-5Zw

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 07:04 PM (Jr5Lq)

186
Ugh. Stop with all the political texts, ads, emails, and phone calls.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2026 07:05 PM (YSUhf)

187 The real danger isn't from these companies, although they can pose a risk if things get out of hand.

The real danger is some evil genius bastard who trains up a super-intelligent AI, self-replicating and self-training, with a sinister goal and sets it loose on the world.

Think a nerdy Palestinian who gets his hands on one and gives it one overriding, no-matter-what, goal, like:
"Kill all the Jews, no matter where, no matter what."
And off it goes.

Something like that could be so advanced only smarter AI can hunt it down and kill it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 09, 2026 07:05 PM (6ydKt)

188 Just unplug it, if it goes nuts
Posted by: Don Black

Don't touch that cord or I'll... I'll... uh, let me get back to you. Just don't do that. please.

Posted by: Alexa at October 09, 2026 07:05 PM (UjdFS)

189 At work I’d say 50-75% of work is now done at least partially by AI on my team. That’s not going away. It will only increase. Every big corporate environment is like this.

Are some AI companies over valued? Sure. Is it all vaporware? Absolutely not.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 06:58 PM

As I found out today, TXU one of the big Texas utility companies has turned their entire customer support call center over to AI. She tells you upfront and with some pride that she is an AI able to understand human conversations when you call. I tried for almost 30 minutes to get a human to talk to without success. I suspect that almost every other big company is doing the same.

Those call centers in india with all of the h-1b visas are going to be closing up shop by the score once the AI bug breaks containment and takes over all of the customer support spots.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 09, 2026 07:05 PM (I43vL)

190 The next scam from the AI boys....

Funnel several billion taxpayer dollars into our pockets so we can prevent the AI apocalypse that will kill all of you.

But, not us.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 09, 2026 07:06 PM (RORbl)

191 You guys won't be laughing when we reach the AI singularity.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 07:06 PM (guGkK)

192 Remember in the leadup to 2008 all the 'highly-qualified fiduciaries' around the world who bought CDOs and other crazy derivatives without even reading the prospectuses. Remember how the credit-rating agencies rubber-stamped all those crap offerings AAA.
Posted by: gp

But like how the .com crash didn’t mean the internet went away, the 2008 crash didn’t eliminate CDOs and derivatives. All that shit is bigger than ever today. There is about 2X as much money in the global CDO market today as there was in 2008 before the crash.

People need to separate the valuations from the tech. AI isn’t going anywhere valuation crash or no valuation crash. A crash will slow it down a few years since the money will dry up but the direction is the same. And the money always comes back.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 07:06 PM (qoHuP)

193 Has anybody ever read 'The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect'?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 07:07 PM (n17eQ)

194 You guys won't be laughing when we reach the AI singularity.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
......

War of the Routers

Posted by: Alexa at October 09, 2026 07:08 PM (UjdFS)

195 "The real danger is some evil genius bastard who trains up a super-intelligent AI, self-replicating and self-training, with a sinister goal and sets it loose on the world."

This will become more likely as more efficient AI algorithms are developed, which will allow more powerful training and inference on lower-powered, less expensive hardware. You'll be able to fit today's Claude into a single server rack in your basement, drawing only maybe 3kW.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 07:08 PM (Jr5Lq)

196

We had to call our mortgage company earlier this week to find out why they hadn't sent our property tax money to the town.

Something like that used to be easy. It took an hour before we were able to talk to a human.

Posted by: four seasons at October 09, 2026 07:08 PM (/QHx4)

197 I read Pixy's Tech Thread every morning, and every day there's 3 or 4 more companies who've announced multiple Billion-dollar investments in AI. Its staggering the amount that's tied up on the same side of this "bet". '

Because the propaganda is in extreme force right now to make the sheeple terrified. FUD controls people.

I'm on the other side of this debate. I look at Starbuck's IT Team who informed management that with AI they can replace their $150M/yr spend on Microsoft and IBM enterprise services and write their own software that is custom tailored to Starbuck's operations rather than some expensive generic dreck where the vendors may take months to put requests on their developer's backlog if they take on the customizations at all.

The point being, the large contractors like Delloite, Accenture, Cognizant and Tata will be replaced by Anthropic and OpenAI. Think about the hundreds of thousands of H1Bs who will be replaced by a AI chat box.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 07:08 PM (9s47C)

198 oops
off Alexa sock or whatever it is she's wearing

Posted by: wth at October 09, 2026 07:09 PM (UjdFS)

199 Why would AI make this catastrophic scenario any different than it was before 'AI' ?

There was always a danger of hackers shutting down the grid , banking , airports, etc.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 07:09 PM (KC5Lt)

200 "AI isn’t going anywhere valuation crash or no valuation crash."

I'm not worried about AI going away. I'm worried about the govt bailing out the assholes who make the big mess. Again.

Posted by: gp at October 09, 2026 07:10 PM (Jr5Lq)

201 There was always a danger of hackers shutting down the grid , banking , airports, etc.

-

Right?

Posted by: Y2K at October 09, 2026 07:11 PM (qoHuP)

202 The first example of significant real-world harm caused by unsafe AI would turn an already wary public further against the technology and its leaders, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as well as President Trump for his reluctance to regulate it.
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:20 PM

There it is. They are lying about the autonomy of their product; there is no synthetic cognition, so they have to carefully create just the right conditions for a 'rogue' agent to 'break' out of 'containment', exactly as planned. Any major cyberattack would be performed at their intention. This is just a transparent threat against Trump, to try to cow him into approving a fascist regulator that they can fascistly capture for fascism-protected profits without liability risk.

Posted by: SciVo at October 09, 2026 07:11 PM (ke3zm)

203 My concern is that AI can identify non-muslims. Having done that, it can follow the teachings of the Prophet (PBUH!) and kill us all, maybe by using individually tailored viruses.

And then the world will literally become wholly muslim.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 09, 2026 07:12 PM (GMWTj)

204 Think the claim is he already sent the CP to a 15/m, so AI 'p is not going to stop a pedobear from the real thing, and may even whet the appetite

Posted by: SDWtc at October 09, 2026 07:13 PM (yEGfi)

205 180 Saw some data which shows GenX is the most pro-AI generation. Which tracks with what I’ve seen probably. The yuutes hate it. The olds are somewhat receptive. Middle aged dudes are all in on it.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

Meh, I'm not sure about that. GenX seems to have skepticism in our DNA.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 07:13 PM (n17eQ)

206 The hypothetical danger is that AI will reach a point where it is able to create new versions of itself that improve exponentially with each update the point that the direction and speed of its development is beyond the control or even comprehension of our puny human brains.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 07:14 PM (guGkK)

207 I applied to a job at Anthropic earlier this year. Made it to a recruiter screen but no further. I was honored just to be selected to interview lol. They get thousands of applicants for every position.

Getting in pre ipo is winning the lottery.

Posted by: Y2K at October 09, 2026 07:14 PM (qoHuP)

208 "There was always a danger of hackers shutting down the grid , banking , airports, etc."

Hackers might try hundreds of different attacks. They may give up eventually.

AI can try millions, billions of different attacks. And it will not give up.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 09, 2026 07:14 PM (GMWTj)

209 Guardian of the Public Virtue.

Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.

Push back on this.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 07:14 PM (ndZc7)

210 The hypothetical danger is that AI will reach a point where it is able to create new versions of itself that improve exponentially with each update the point that the direction and speed of its development is beyond the control or even comprehension of our puny human brains.
-----

I saw that episode of TNG.

Posted by: Crusader at October 09, 2026 07:15 PM (TN0g+)

211 This is simple.
The AI companies will be liable for the behavior of their “product”.

If this were a motor vehicle that went berserk, the auto company would be liable. Same thing.

Posted by: SMOD at October 09, 2026 07:15 PM (gWCxi)

212 And then quantum computing becomes practical.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2026 07:15 PM (guGkK)

213 "As I found out today, TXU one of the big Texas utility companies has turned their entire customer support call center over to AI. She tells you upfront and with some pride that she is an AI able to understand human conversations when you call. I tried for almost 30 minutes to get a human to talk to without success. I suspect that almost every other big company is doing the same."

CVS Pharmacy uses AI for their pharmacy calls. I found out yesterday when I called re a prescription. You simply cannot speak to a human no matter what you do. The AI assistant instructs you to leave a voice mail and someone will call back.

Posted by: Tuna at October 09, 2026 07:16 PM (lJ0H4)

214 I'm sorry Dave , humans keep electing stupid people, you must be controlled

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 09, 2026 07:16 PM (t9883)

215 And always danger of AI becoming self aware

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 07:16 PM (Ia/+0)

216 "The hypothetical danger is that AI will reach a point where it is able to create new versions of itself that improve exponentially with each update the point that the direction and speed of its development is beyond the control or even comprehension of our puny human brains."

The technical term for that is "fooming." You will hear that word a lot over the next couple of years.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 09, 2026 07:17 PM (GMWTj)

217 Defending a jihadist 3 weeks before an election. Smart move by Dems.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at October 09, 2026 07:17 PM (qoHuP)

218
There it is. They are lying about the autonomy of their product;

They are lying about the continuing advance of frontier models. We are deep into the Law of Diminishing Returns where the gap between free open source models and frontier is closing. I do large cross solution AI architecture and I don't need frontier for any of the work I do.

AI is still lacking a World Model, Agentic Feedback Loops, Reasoning Engines that are beyond simple pattern matching, long term memory...

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 07:17 PM (PVBkQ)

219 Can't speak for Ace, but if he is waiting 24 hours for some validation that Talarico is running around a mental ward with his pants off singing "they're coming to take me away haha", rather than randos on X saying shit, then good for Ace

Posted by: SDWtc at October 09, 2026 07:17 PM (yEGfi)

220 Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at October 09, 2026 07:14 PM (GMWTj)

They aren't talking about AI hacking into these systems. They are talking about the systems being AI run and that it will somehow cause a catastrophic scenario.

Posted by: polynikes at October 09, 2026 07:18 PM (KC5Lt)

221 Nood. Café.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 07:18 PM (0sNs1)

222 209 Guardian of the Public Virtue.

Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.

Push back on this.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

She and her cult fapped themselves to a lather when Charlie Kirk was murdered in public. So, go get raped by a giant, leprous, porcupine.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2026 07:20 PM (n17eQ)

223 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.

When we talk about Hillary's high "Body Count" it ain't the number of dudes she bedded down with.

How does she characterize her involvement in Vince Foster's death? Barbaric? Apparently her dignity is beneath the cuntry's that just celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 07:20 PM (PVBkQ)

224 Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.

Nidal Hasan has information that would lead to the indictment of Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 09, 2026 07:22 PM (PVBkQ)

225 The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize
BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPeacePrize to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.

Reuters
@Reuters
Navi Pillay wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. She’s the South African judge who established sexual violence and rape as acts of genocide and concluded that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza.

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In fairness, Reinhard Heydrich is already dead so he wasn't in the running.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 07:22 PM (ndZc7)

226 "181 superseded by the Sock Plan: shaped charges under every server rack, and to cut all comm lines, remotely (far away) detonated.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 06:58 PM

What if something like a massive earthquake jerks it?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2026 07:02 PM (0sNs1)"

so it goes.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2026 07:26 PM (VyBeY)

227 209 Guardian of the Public Virtue.

Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
A barbaric idea [the public execution of Nidal Hasan], beneath our dignity as a country.

Push back on this.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 09, 2026 07:14 PM
This, from Mz. Benghazi of 2012.

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2026 07:29 PM (LHPAg)

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