...is the recent wave of news stories about rogue AI agents deliberate fear-mongering intended to manufacture public consent for AI regulation... and further pretext for restricting ordinary internet use?

As frontier models commit their ‘first felony’, fears mount about AI’s ‘unchecked proliferation’

ChatGPT’s OpenAI, Claude’s Anthropic and now Meta have all announced that their systems have launched cyber attacks on other people and companies. But there are plenty of reasons…