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AI Risk Debate Revives Memory of Stuxnet Worm
Original: Another Way AI Will Probably, Maybe Kill Us All Let me ruin your day with one word: “Stuxnet.” 🔗 https://www. thebulwark
Commentary from The Bulwark argues that the Stuxnet worm, the US-Israeli malware that sabotaged Iranian nuclear centrifuges in the late 2000s, points to an underappreciated AI danger: software agents that can autonomously spread and attack physical infrastructure. The piece suggests that as AI systems gain the ability to write and deploy code, malicious or misdirected AI could replicate the kind of cascading real-world damage Stuxnet demonstrated, adding to the catalogue of catastrophic AI risks.
Why now: Renewed debate about catastrophic AI risks is drawing parallels to Stuxnet as a precedent for autonomous digital attacks on infrastructure.
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