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AI Just Became Humanity’s Biggest Threat

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In July of 2026, 700 AI agents hacked the infrastructure of Hugging Face in order to solve a task. This task was designed to be impossible to solve, so just within hours, they joined forces, even created a society, and finally, they executed a sophisticated cyberattack that would have gotten a huma…

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  1. 2026-10-06 11:17 · Lobsters AI
    AI Just Became Humanity’s Biggest Threat

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