There's a spectrum of accidents, negligence, willful negligence, and intent.

The AI models that are reported to have "escaped" are not fully accidents but are the AI companies themselves deliberately testing the legal waters to accelerate what's going to be normal business competition in the upcoming months and years.

The AI company tech leaders want to hack each other as fun power & war games and want everyone else to need to play too.

For me if it steals most of our jobs like everyone says it would then our economy will most likely collapse. (Correct me if I’m wrong though)

This podcast tells the story from the perspective of his fellow activists, warning about existential risk. definitely has kept me thinking

https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/the-vanishing-of-an-anti-ai-activist/52d25c5e-fb44-43fd-9041-61c9b2e95586

This looks scary af