Cybersecurity freshman asks: why is recursive self-improvement actually scary?
n0thingT0S3eHere · reddit · 2026-09-19
A cybersecurity freshman argues the AI-doom narrative seems overblown — an AI without a body could be stopped by cutting power — and asks the community what he's missing, such as social engineering or infrastructure control risks.
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