"They can shut the data centers off": Redditor dismantles rogue AI apocalypse scenarios
deus-libidinis · reddit · 2026-09-14
A Redditor pushes back on AI doom narratives with practical objections: the same companies that spent the largest capital in human history on AI claim it might kill us all—yet they can shut the data centers off at any time.
How does a trillion-parameter model "copy itself," and to where? It's not a 256KB virus. How does the internet get "overtaken in 6 months" when the data center serving those bot swarms is down with a 504? Apocalypse scenarios assume rogue agents wreaking havoc while still calling an LLM behind a REST API—the physical dependency is the obvious weak link.
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