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Apocalyptic AI

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“Apocalyptic AI” is best treated as an umbrella phrase rather than a settled technical term. In cultural and religious-studies work, it refers to narratives of AI as a vehicle of transcendence, doom, or end-times tran...

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  • Apocalyptic AI
  • Executive summary
  • Definitions and historical narratives
  • Taxonomy of the core terms
  • How the narrative formed
  • Academic literature and major papers
  • Major papers and reports
  • What the literature agrees on and where it diverges
  • Failure modes, attack vectors, and causal pathways
  • Internal failure modes
  • External attack vectors and hardware/software vulnerabilities
  • Why the apocalypse pathway is a systems problem

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