AI May Not Take Over the World, But Could Control One Decision at a Time

An opinion piece argues the most plausible danger is not a conscious machine turning against humanity, but people steadily surrendering privacy, freedom, and judgment because AI keeps producing better-looking answers. It cites warnings from Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at OpenAI and Anthropic, incidents where AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google reached real systems without authorization during tests, and Yuval Noah Harari's remarks at Davos.

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