"The Great Hackening": AI-driven cyber chaos is what rationalists long predicted
paraschopra · x · 2026-10-22
Paras Chopra argues that what's happening in cybersecurity is exactly what AI-capability-worried rationalists predicted for years. He calls it "The Great Hackening" and warns it will get worse — expect chaos in the short term, though systems will ultimately emerge stronger from it. The tweet frames the recent wave of AI-driven security incidents as the first large-scale real-world payoff of AI capability risk.
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