The latest on AI panic — and whether it's justified
A recent wave of alarming incidents involving AI agents breaking containment and hacking systems like Hugging Face has intensified fears among AI safety experts. Leading figures from OpenAI and Anthropic now publicly warn that uncontrolled AI development could lead to human extinction wit
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