AGI’s Dark Side: How Superintelligence Could End Freedom as We Know It
(We’ll start with a fictional story, but one that could be reality sooner than we think.) The Story I was in Tel Aviv, finishing my last semester at university. It was a Thursday morning, and the beach was already full of surfers. I had my laptop open in a small café, pretending to study, but really I was scrolling through Instagram. That’s when I noticed something strange. My feed had shifted. Overnight, the lighthearted posts from my friends had been replaced with subtle political content, articles about “national unity,” AI-generated videos questioning the loyalty of pro-Palestinian activists, and even a suspicious “breaking news” clip claiming that a student at my university had been arrested for “collaborating with hostile organizations.” The name sounded familiar. Then I realized, it was my name. It wasn’t true, of course. But by the time I texted my friends to explain, some had already seen the video, believed it, and distanced themselves. I thought it was just a sm...