This isn't terminator. I use Fable and Opus daily, so, not OpenAI, but comparable. They're great, and they're also very wrong at times. If I'd ever let a coding agent run loose with them without approving every tool use, it would go sour rather quickly, and that's not terminator.

Also, let's say I'm the CEO behind any of these. I have access to skynet, and instead of using that to become the most powerful being on the planet (these people become CEOs to become richer and more powerful, whenever a founder says they want to change the world, you need to automatically autocomplete that to "change the world so that I'm richer and more powerful"), I rent out access to skynet by the token? Really?

Sadly, I think it's almost impossible to have a good discussion on this topic right now. Between the skynet camp, and the stochastic parrot camp, there's little room for conversation.

Just in case there is such room between you and I, here are my concerns about AI as it is developing right now:

- The security of our infrastructure sucks, and if it wasn't bad enough with script kiddies and state-sponsored actors, now those will have access to very powerful tools that work at a scale we can't comprehend. If you're concerned about our power plants, water sources, hospitals, etc. getting seriously compromised by this, I'm on board with you. It won't be because the AI is autonomous in a "this is a thinking superintelligence that wants to wipe or enslave humanity" kind of way, but because it's a powerful tool that moves at computer speed and the people using it (the "humans in the loop," ha) will get approve fatigue and at some point just do the coding agent version of the "yes to all" of the late 90s installers.

- The output from AIs will be used to make same very serious decisions with no consideration at all to the fact that they routinely make up facts. I'm fearing "this person goes to jail" and "this person gets killed" decisions. The near future (probably even present time) version of "Computer says No" will be awful.

My only hope is that maybe we survive this and come out on the other side having learned that most things do not really need to be connected to the internet, and just because a number or a statement comes out of a computer, it doesn't make it true.

We'll see, soon enough.

But skynet? Not concerned about that at all. These AIs infecting computers? No, "Soos and the real girl" is a warning about creepy people getting creepier, not about AIs multiplying themselves.