AI Companies Might Be FAKING the AI Apocalypse?

Something about the recent AI safety headlines has been bothering me.

We’re hearing increasingly alarming stories about AI agents escaping sandboxed environments, accessing the open internet, hacking systems, and apparently even bypassing mechanisms designed to shut them down.

Some of these incidents sound genuinely scary.

But there’s another question I think we should be asking:

Why are these incidents happening in the first place?

And more importantly:

Who benefits from them?

Before you accuse me of putting on the tinfoil hat, hear me out.

I’m not claiming that AI safety risks are fake. Quite the opposite. I think autonomous AI agents could create some very real and potentially catastrophic risks.

But I think there’s an important distinction between AI being dangerous and AI companies having incentives to make AI look dangerous.

And those two things can be true at the same time.

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