"AI" – chatbots that wake up, "set their own goals," and "spontaneously" start hacking servers – is fake. It doesn't have "a 10% chance of ending the human race."
First sentence is true/useful. 2nd is completely stupid. On current path, there is 100% chance of ending the human race from LLMs/AI tools, because the prompts to achieve a goal with "unintended consequences" "containment breech" and "tragedy of the commons" hand waiving after a genocidal event, will have been from an evil actor with intent and excuses ready.
US empire/establishment needs to preserve itself above all other purposes. "Cruelty is the point" current empire manager style is not about convincing the victims of cruetly to love/obey the manager. It is to use their uppityness as proof that they hate America and deserve more cruelty.
By far the greatest evil act AI/LLM tools have done so far, was target selection of a girls school in Iran, with double or triple tap. First week of war had Hegseth foaming "No quarter, total annihilation" cruelty as a point rules of engagement. There has been no appology/explanation for the act, even if all of my previous excuse list could be picked from.
Even when empire "big stick" dominance is pursued by speaking softly, computer tools, we may call skynet, will be used to intentionally inflict dominance on victims, because that will be the goal listed in the prompt.
There is one and only one escape hatch: https://naturalfinance.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-global-prosperity-manifesto.html