Dangerous Robot
A guide to AI's dangers, and what you can do about it.
The algorithm got your attention. The robot wants the wheel.
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Two kinds of AI danger
One you can learn to handle. The other, its makers say they can’t yet control. We hand it our lives anyway: it grants wishes.
The familiar kind
A chainsaw is dangerous too, but much less so if you learn how it works and practice using it.
Much of what AI can do to your privacy, your money, your attention or your judgment can be handled the same way.
From the research archive
TRUE Using generative AI can harm cognitive abilityThe second kind
The people building these systems say, on the record, that AI will become more capable than we are, and that they do not yet know how to control it.
You cannot train your way out of that.
From the research archive
TRUE Most major AI Model Producers score D or worse on FLI's 2025 AI Safety Index for Existential Threat