Scholar's debunk of "AI will take over the internet" quote dropped by reporter

Columbia scholar Vishal Misra said a reporter asked him whether models could "take over the internet"; his rebuttal that this would require compromising millions of routers and that superintelligence is not magic was dropped from the story, after which the reporter hung up.

2026-09-24 ~ 2026-09-24 · 2 related posts

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