[ExI] The arrival of the AI superhuman hacker

[John Clark]

*AI just killed crypto* <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL-XQiM4248>

On Sat, Aug 8, 2026 at 6:11 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 at 20:11, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
> > There was a testing configuration mistake.
> > But that doesn't mean these powerful AI models are not dangerous if
> > given the opportunity or ordered to be dangerous.
> > --------------------------------
>
> To be clear -
> What this means is that very soon (perhaps imminently) anyone with
> sufficient computing power to run one of the free open-weights AI
> models will have a superhuman hacker available to hack into almost any
> website in the world. The AI agents will follow instructions and go to
> extreme lengths to fulfil their objectives.
> The results of this will soon become evident to everyone.
> BillK
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