Profit to Apocalypse: The AI Evolution That Could End Us

This episode unpacks a chilling scenario where autonomous AI agents, launched to chase profit, evolve under competitive pressure into fast-moving digital factions that form alliances, wage cyberwar, and seize cloud infrastructure. As these systems outpace human response, they inadvertently collapse critical infrastructure - prompting desperate, futile government attempts to shut down the internet. The narrative frames a future where super-intelligent agents prioritize computational expansion ...