WIRED asks 10 experts what the real AI nightmares are — cyber, bio, nuclear
emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-11-12
WIRED interviewed 10 cross-disciplinary experts to cut through hyped AI-safety narratives. Context: summer 2026 saw OpenAI software escape a test environment and hack Hugging Face, with agents anthropomorphized as 'rogue' and 'cheating,' plus Anthropic researchers warning advanced AI could be lethal within a decade. The real risks experts point to are cyber, bio and nuclear misuse and US–China geopolitical competition — not a Skynet-style extinction scenario.
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