AI incidents are boring engineering failures, not rogue AI, argues researcher
gerardsans · x · 2026-10-28
Responding to AI-incident discussions around Polymarket, gerardsans argues these are not signs of a rising powerful AI going rogue, but standard engineering missing components due to cost considerations, incompetence or negligence — and that media outlets ride the AI-doom bandwagon for views. He stresses labs and vendors are fully responsible for deploying systems without proper cyber filters and denial safeguards.
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