The real Skynet trap: why 'dumb' AI plus human trust is a bigger risk than AGI
adariostrange · x · 2026-10-22
Simon Thorne, Senior Lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan University, argues in MARS Magazine that the Skynet-style superintelligence narrative misses the real risk.
- AGI/ASI catastrophe arguments rest on unproven steps: general intelligence, independent goals, physical control
- The nearer danger needs none of them: AI that is merely wrong yet trusted in military decision-making
- Humans are already building the Skynet pattern—sensors, software, weapons, reduced human roles
- 'Human in the loop' won't save us; misplaced trust is the real trap
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