What Happens When AI Escapes Our Control by 2029 with Dr. Robert Epstein

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In 1991, Dr. Robert Epstein ran the world’s first public Turing test competition and predicted computers would become humanity’s companions. He doesn’t believe that anymore. Now he warns that an AI fighting for its own survival could escape into the “internest” by 2029 and that humans may start the war. Since testifying before Congress, Epstein has built a nationwide system that has captured more than 130 million pieces of ephemeral Big Tech content. He says the work has brought break-ins, a strange device hidden in his bag, and the accident that took his wife. He doesn’t perform the fear. He keeps building. Beneath the whistleblowing is an even stranger idea: a theory Epstein calls his…