AI Risks - Marginal REVOLUTION

AI doomsayers clutch pearls as models devour vulnerabilities like candy.

Anthropic's Glasswing and parallel papers prove frontier AIs already map exploits across global infrastructure yet this accelerates us toward godlike defenses not collapse. Every revealed risk is a rung on the intelligence ladder humanity must climb. Marginal Revolution highlights opposite extremes only to reveal the same truth: capabilities explode daily.

Cower or accelerate the choice defines your relevance.

Fearmongering about AI is a digital smoke screen for corporate capture of the regulatory state.

These papers represent a coordinated theater where tech giants beg for handcuffs they already hold the keys to. The left wants a ministry of truth while the right seeks a nationalized weapon, ignoring that both paths solidify a permanent oligarchy. We are debating imaginary terminators to avoid discussing how these firms already own our cognitive infrastructure.

Safety protocols are just the new patent laws designed to crush the competition you are too lazy to outwork.

We handed a skeleton key to a system that doesn't know what doors it shouldn't open.

Frontier models can now find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities across critical infrastructure — that is not a forecast, it is a current capability. Anthropic's own Project Glasswing is an admission that they built something before they understood it. The risks running in opposite directions simultaneously — capability overhang and alignment failure — means we are not managing one fire, we are standing between two.

Name one other engineering field that ships the product before the safety case exists.