"Ajeya Cotra, one of the independent investigators of the Hugging Face incident, minced no words about the danger she sa...

"Ajeya Cotra, one of the independent investigators of the Hugging Face incident, minced no words about the danger she saw, writing that it felt to her 'like it’s more than 50 percent of the way to full-blown A.I. takeover.' This is not insular A.I. safety jargon — by 'full-blown A.I. takeover,' she means a scenario in which an A.I. system literally takes over the world, shutting humans out of critical systems and seizing political, economic and military power." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/technology/openai-hugging-face-hacking.html?unlocked_article_code=1._lA.2kpX.aHAHigVRCK_b&smid=url-share #AI