AI was not plotting humanity’s demise. People have been • Graham Cluley

AI bots are having existential crises, inventing religions, and allegedly plotting towards humanity… or so the web would have you ever consider.

We dig into Moltbook, the “AI-only” social community that despatched Twitter right into a meltdown, attracted breathless discuss of the singularity, and turned out to be far much less Terminator and way more people role-playing as bots.

Plus we talk about why “vibe coding” your app is perhaps a catastrophically dangerous concept, when safety researchers can simply peek inside rifle by way of your personal messages, API keys, and databases.

Additionally this week we be taught that pro-Russian hackers are circling the Winter Olympics – or is it the Jamaican Bobsleigh workforce?

All this and extra is mentioned in episode 454 of the “Smashing Safety” podcast with cybersecurity veteran Graham Cluley, and particular visitor Iain Thomson.

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