The A.i. Prompt That Could End the World
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> GPT-5 can do things no other A.I. can do. It can hack into a web server. It can design novel forms of life. It can even build its own A.I. (albeit a much simpler one) from scratch
Especially "design novel forms of life" blinks "Citation required" in neon colors.
The article goes on from there with a lot of very credible, real-world jail-break examples. But that opener...