Here Comes ‘Death by AI’
Every one of those accidents is a tragedy, yet traffic deaths are so common that they usually get little news coverage.During the same 24 hours, it is exceedingly unlikely that anyone will die from the actions of an AI agent. Unless you count military uses or suicides that may have become more likely after someone’s conversations with a chatbot, “death by AI” isn’t really a thing. The maker of ChatGPT had been conducting a test aimed at measuring the capabilities of its latest models.
- ▪Every one of those accidents is a tragedy, yet traffic deaths are so common that they usually get little news coverage.During the same 24 hours, it is exceedingly unlikely that anyone will die from the actions of an AI agent.
- ▪Unless you count military uses or suicides that may have become more likely after someone’s conversations with a chatbot, “death by AI” isn’t really a thing.
- ▪The maker of ChatGPT had been conducting a test aimed at measuring the capabilities of its latest models.
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Here Comes ‘Death by AI’Last week, OpenAI disclosed what it called “an unprecedented cyber incident” after one of its AI agents unexpectedly hacked into the systems of Hugging Face. (via Getty Images)We are getting uncomfortably close to the moment when an AI agent will be capable of evading or eliminating the humans standing in the way of the job it set out to accomplish.By Patrick McGee07.27.26 — Tech and BusinessNo description available.FOLLOW TOPIC --:----:--Upgrade to ListenProduced by ElevenLabs using AI narration1READ IN APPREAD IN APPBetween the writing of this column on a Sunday morning and the time most people read it the following day, more than 3,000 people will likely die in a car crash.
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