Quintin Pope: state-backed cybercriminals misusing AI pose a bigger threat than rogue labs
QuintinPope5 · x · 2026-09-09
In the same thread, Quintin Pope highlights an often-overlooked point: people will actively train AGIs (and ASIs) to do bad things. Cybercrime is lucrative and often government-backed; such actors already use AI and will use it more. He considers this a greater threat than rogue lab models.
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