Rebutting the View That AI Progress Is Just Marketing Hype
joshua_saxe · x · 2026-08-31
Joshua Saxe rebuts the prevailing security community view that LLMs and Agents are merely implementations of known concepts and that sci-fi narratives are marketing hype. He argues that progress—from cat vs. dog classification 14 years ago to superhuman hacking swarms today—is real. Failing to believe in continued progress means missing how rapidly things will change.
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