r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • 19d ago

Artificial Intelligence Anthropic CEO warns of AI-driven botnet 'swarm' taking over the entire internet — 'In 6–12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet'

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-ceo-warns-of-ai-driven-botnet-swarm-taking-over-the-entire-internet-in-6-12-months-such-a-swarm-could-be-capable-of-taking-over-the-entire-internet-with-a-persistent-botnet
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u/semidivineone 19d ago

Yep that evil all seeing eye!

Not ironic that mass surveillance and forced compliance is at the heart of Theil's vision. His award for this scary ass shit? A 550 million plus government program award to start building the databases to implement his vision.

These Fing guys...

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u/BipolarMosfet 19d ago

Also super fittingly ironic that the Palntir were just useful magical devices that got co-opted and corrupted by an evil power and then couldn't be safely used by anyone.

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u/semidivineone 19d ago

Very solid point

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u/PaleCommission150 19d ago

there is another guy, Lucky Palmer ( sounds like a brand of smokes) who owns a company that creates futuristic defense dept weapons, called Anduril.

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u/semidivineone 19d ago

Yep. He's not someone I've fully been able to read into but do know the company created quite the stir with LMCO, Northrup, Boeing, etc with winning contracts they thought were in the bag. Many of those contracts have AI controlled vehicles of some sort. Not certain they are working much in civilian side of things but wouldn't be suprised if they are. Hell companies like this are most certainly working on most advanced drone tech in the world at a time where we've the least transparency. Anything is possible and that's kinda unsettling.