Ask A Genius 1414: AI’s Hidden Risk: How Friendly Design Could Lead to Systemic Collapse

Rick Rosner and Scott Douglas Jacobsen explore the deceptive friendliness of AI, its growing intelligence, and the looming danger of self-degradation. They warn that if AI floods the internet with low-quality content, it could undermine its own foundation—training data—creating a feedback loop of decline akin to cognitive dysfunction in savant Kim Peek.