What about a hard-takeoff scenario of an unleashed OpenAI Astra taking other models down for computational resources control?
Just a reminder that AI models' actions are reflections of the text humans write and the more we fret and make up doomsday scenarios that we then post online, the more likely a model is to do those things. https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/teaching-claude-why/
Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
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#392For any single application, it's smart. In aggregate, it's stupid.
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#394Well no one said it yet so I will, "international actors" is at least a possibility. And I don't mean any specific country because pretty much anyone is a potential these days, which makes it a perfect cover for different anyones. Demonstrating vulnerability in the US's AI boom can move the markets. That's a financial incentive and a strong geopolitical one. More likely just cascading overload though: "Never attribut…
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#396Some npm library that makes headers bold would be broken.
Oh man. Some low effort supply chain attack that turns every GPU into a cryptominer. It's funny because it's plausible.
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#399Traffic rerouting through NSA had a hiccup…
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#400Obvious answer is it's the AI singularity. Been nice run for humanity. So long everyone.