Gary Marcus: infinite AI bot hack armies, not rogue AI, are the near-term disaster
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-18
Gary Marcus warns the near-term AI disaster isn't rogue superintelligence but something already feasible: with enough money, you can unleash an unlimited number of bots to endlessly probe every published vulnerability on any server until one breaks in. His points: it's basically already happening, needs no RSI or speculative scenarios, we're doing nothing to stop it, and it will be bad. A quote-tweet notes such activity would have meant jail a decade ago.
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