30 October 2026
Essay argues AI industry is waiting for a disaster before acting
First reported
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- An essay argues the AI industry is waiting for a major AI-enabled disaster before taking action on the risks.
- It cites AI-assisted hacking, a possible AI-triggered military incident, and AI help with planning bioweapons as examples of mounting risk.
- The author says the frontier of AI development remains largely unpaced, meaning little is slowing it down.
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Only Big Technology has covered this essay among the 30 newsletters we track, first reported on 2026-10-30. Our archive's closest earlier entry on this thread is a 2026-10-20 essay arguing that AI coding agents are eroding programming as a craft.
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Big TechnologyAlex Kantrowitz
Black October cyber vulnerabilities, AI-enabled hacks on banks and financial targets, a near-war US-China boarding incident, AI bioweapon planning, and industry inaction on coordination