Month: May 2025

Artificial Intelligence

The Real Existential Risk of AI Isn’t What You Think

Existential Risk from AI

Everyone’s worried about AI becoming sentient and taking over: cue the killer robots, glowing red eyes, and post-apocalyptic deserts. That’s great science fiction. But not great systems thinking. Here’s what we should actually be worried about: AI that’s dumb, fast, and unsupervised. Not malicious, just highly efficient, poorly understood, and capable of causing chaos at …