Wake up, people. What we should actually fear, near term, is not so much rogue superintelligence as unleashed agentic AI causing hacking the internet at scale.

Minor breaking news (today):

Medium breaking news (yesterday):

(“Medium” only because nobody is really surprised at this point. Dog bites man.)

Major breaking news (last night):

Every bit of it points to the reality hardly anyone is talking about:

Kudos to WSJ Opinion for being one of the few mainstream outlets to lay out the big picture here , in this terrific essay by Brian Gross (described as “a staffer for the Federal Reserve Board, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Senate”):

An excellent excerpt:

I agree with every word.