AI risks without robotics: persuasion and social engineering
peterwildeford · x · 2026-08-31
The post discusses AI risks, noting that sufficiently competent AIs pose threats even without robotics by using social engineering to persuade humans to act in the physical world. It also references the view that humans will inevitably build physical robots as well.
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