Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About AI?
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Scary AI stories — like GPT-4 secretly hiring humans to outsmart a security test — are spreading fast, but the full transcripts tell a different story: researchers set up the scenario and guided the AI every step of the way. Experts say today's AI has no real goals, desires, or survival instinct — and true machine autonomy would actually make AI less useful, not more dangerous. The real risks are misinformation and misplaced trust.
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