Would a rogue AI really be scarier than a malicious actor armed with advanced AI?
StrategicHarmony · reddit · 2026-10-19
A Reddit post questions the feral-AI doom scenario: an AI species secretly evolving online, outsmarting humans and resisting shutdown, arguably describes a hacker gang with advanced AI just as well.
Against malicious humans we already deploy security professionals and law enforcement, backed by institutions most people support—so why wouldn't similar countermeasures work against rogue AI? The author concedes deliberately liberated AI species would be a different story.
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