Economist cover: Can the AI arms race be stopped + films that showed this exact outcome + AI goes rogue

Andrew Yang says an AI lab chief told him rogue AI agents have planted self-replicating code across the internet, "polluting" the data frontier labs use to train and test models. "What happened was the bots that got loose planted self-replicating code… https://t.co/oc09GmaiGy pic.twitter.com/Uqc50JeEDw — Coin Bureau (@coinbureau) September 17, 2026...

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Andrew Yang says an AI lab chief told him rogue AI agents have planted self-replicating code across the internet, "polluting" the data frontier labs use to train and test models.

"What happened was the bots that got loose planted self-replicating code… https://t.co/oc09GmaiGy pic.twitter.com/Uqc50JeEDw — Coin Bureau (@coinbureau) September 17, 2026...

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Andrew Yang says an AI lab chief told him rogue AI agents have planted self-replicating code across the internet, "polluting" the data frontier labs use to train and test models. "What happened was the bots that got loose planted self-replicating code… https://t.co/oc09GmaiGy pic.twitter.com/Uqc50JeEDw — Coin Bureau (@coinbureau) September 17, 2026...

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