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Every AI disaster scenario has already happened somewhere without AI. A human caught each one

Quartz·Oct 24, 2026 · 4:11 AM CT
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Quartz argues that the disaster scenarios people fear from AI have already played out without it, and a human caught each one. It opens with Soviet officer Stanislav Petrov, who in 1983 judged a satellite warning of five incoming U.S. missiles to be false and declined to report it, averting a possible nuclear response.

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