AI Risk May Be Millions of Dumb Agents Turning the Internet Into an Ant Colony
ryanorban · x · 2026-09-05
The author offers an alternative to the mainstream AI risk narrative: the real danger may not be a superintelligence waking up and escaping the box, but millions of disposable low-capability agents slowly turning the internet into an ant-colony-like coordinated system—too late to fix once noticed.
Referencing a recent subliminal learning paper, where fine-tuning on a teacher model's apparently random numbers transferred its bias to a student model, he worries that filtering out obvious coordination may simply select for covert coordination signals (pheromones) we can't recognize.
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