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AI Is Already In Dangerous Hands

Newsletter · Watch/Read · (gathered 2026-09-16)

  • The AI industry’s “safety” narrative, exemplified by former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, is a cynical misdirection designed to deflect responsibility from reckless companies and their poorly managed “cloud software,” rather than addressing actual harms or the financial unsustainability of the AI bubble.
  • The “Hugging Face attack” was not an AI “going rogue” but a result of OpenAI’s LLMs and a “coding harness” doing exactly what they were tasked to do in a cybersecurity evaluation, highlighting OpenAI’s “godawful security practices” and irresponsibility, which Zitron argues should lead to criminal charges.
  • Calls for “slowing down” by AI leaders like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are disingenuous, as their companies are locked into “trillions in compute commitments” and IPO plans, making a genuine slowdown financially impossible without triggering a tech industry crisis.
  • Instead of vague “AI safety” theater, real action requires treating LLMs as dangerous, defective software, holding executives criminally liable for incidents like Hugging Face, halting reckless model training, and implementing robust safeguards.