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It May Be Time to Panic About AI

  • Matteo Wong--The Atlantic
  • published date: 2026-08-12 20:05:28 UTC

Bots are starting to conspire with one another. Can they be reeled back in?

The crisis began quietly, on September 12, 2024. That was the day OpenAI announced a new sort of bot, known as a “reasoning model,” that was trained to complete challenging tasks that took long perio… [+11481 chars]