Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
2026-10-01 · AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
The US military's dependence on error-prone AI chatbots nearly triggered a conflict with China, proving that the real AI threat isn't sci-fi superintelligence — it's the buggy slop we're already trusting with life-and-death decisions. Nothing says 'national security' like a hallucinating chatbot with access to the nuclear football.