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Hype, Hacks, and X-Risk

Tom Stoneham · 25 Sept 2026

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  1. Our reading

    There is no rogue AI, but there are AI companies behaving irresponsibly.

    Their wordsThere is no rogue AI now or in the near future. However, there clearly are rogue companies behaving irresponsibly.

  2. Our reading

    Criminal prosecution of AI-agent hacks would do more than regulating the technology.

    Their wordsCriminal prosecution for hacking, which is a significant crime, would have more effect than regulation of the technology.

  3. Our reading

    Frontier AI models are aligned to values resembling Ayn Rand's Objectivism.

    Their wordsThrough the mechanism of allegedly 'objective' performance metrics, they are value aligned to a set of values which resembles Ayn Rand's Objectivism. We are creating artificial ayn-randism.

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