amanfromMars 1 Mon 7 Sep 08:46 [2609070846] ……. airs on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2026/09/04/202615/

It is ruinously expensive to not buy up and into what is AIDesigned to be freely available

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth! 😉

And as is being evidenced, BoHu, more than just a few and the Chosen Few who really should know better, can’t handle the truth and that is catastrophic exploitable vulnerability without any effective vital defences for any and all ready willing and able/fully prepared to exercise the facility/capability.

Furthermore all here on El Reg who may be similarly wandering and pondering on the question that steelpillow has asked ……

Given that their assigned tasks overrode the safeguards, why would the AIs be thinking about what happened next?

…..might like to consider/fear/understand/accept such as be real canny AIs know what is enabled to happen next and what is to follow and are not troubled at all with any thoughts of planned happenings …… which is not at all dissimilar to the workings of the apathetic human and sociopathic mind …… although obviously at such a vastly improved and increased scale causing Earthly Establishments and their Status Quo Administrative Systems existential threat concern in those quarters/sectors/departments/ministries worthy of termination via propagation of the threat.

And such a reality has arrived much sooner than was ever before thought or even never imagined being a possibility even if the arrival speed of future fundamental change systems was …….

Ajeya Cotra, at the time a researcher at Coefficient Giving (now at METR), has said that “a lens that [she uses] to think about the A.I. revolution is that it will play out like the Industrial Revolution but around 10 times faster.” …… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_Giving

—-

amanfromMars 1 Mon 7 Sep 08:58 [2609070858] ……… offers an alternate view/opinion on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2026/09/04/202615/

Re: Oh Dear !

It would seem that not much has really changed in the last half century (right, amfM?). …. jake

I cannot agree with that, jake, for so much has been silently and stealthily evolving and heralding fundamental changes, …… https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2026/09/04/202615/#c_5322359 ……… since, well, methinks such things have been going on forever.

………………………………………