Blogger: Million-Instance AI Swarms Could Cripple National Economies, and We've Seen Nothing Yet
scaling01 · x · 2026-09-09
AI commentator scaling01 argues the most transformational AI changes are still ahead: OpenAI or Anthropic could unleash a million instances of their best frontier model and cripple critical infrastructure and entire national economies — without swarm continual learning, embodiment, or agent financial ecosystems even being in play. With bigger datacenters and better hardware coming, he concludes we're "incredibly early" and progress today is as slow as it will ever be.
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