I can see it now: the Terminator travels back to 2021 and then casually walks by the office for Boston Dynamics, Tesla, even X1, and Figure AI, and instead stops in front of Anthropic. With his characteristic Austrian accent, the Terminator flexes his formidable muscles and says, "I must stop programmers from makingz Claude AI. I vill prevent the first almost fully automated, large-scale cyberattack in 2025." Meanwhile, the robot developers scurry away, figuring the Terminator might be back in a decade for their hides.
In real life, there is no Terminator, but there are extremely worrying signs about AI's rapid development and new concerns about its weaponization. This week, Anthropic revealed that it mostly thwarted a massive "AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign."
