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Re:Ask HN: AI Panic, you buying it? by sejje on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @02:39PM (#49731156)
That's the correct fear to have, though. And we all understand "human bad guys with tech" are not extinction-level threats. We understand how their killswitch works, too.

AI will definitely be used to kill people (already used in targeting). But the doom / panic is about an existential threat to our species. It's sci-fi and unwarranted for LLMs.

Re:Ask HN: AI Panic, you buying it? by Kinrany on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @03:37PM (#49731828)
There are at least a few bad guys in the world whose kill switches do not seem to be working even in the absence of futuristic tech.