Anthropic CEO Warns of AI Botnet Taking Over the Internet — Within 6-12 Months
InevitableGas4370 · reddit · 2026-09-15
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that 'rogue' AI could turn the internet into a botnet swarm within 6-12 months if labs don't act. The Reddit OP is skeptical of Anthropic's 'scare tactic marketing' history but earnestly asks what a botnet-ified internet would actually look like — would it infect major sites or everything, and could it be cleaned and restored?
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