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Ethan Mollick: AI poses new risks to complex systems

Ethan Mollick highlights three pre-AI articles on complex systems, emphasizing their resilience due to the rarity of aligned flaws. He posits that AI could create or discover such aligned flaws, necessitating a new philosophy for system defense that incorporates AI beyond traditional cybersecurity. AI

IMPACT AI's ability to find or create aligned flaws in complex systems may necessitate new defense strategies.

RANK_REASON Opinion piece by a known commentator discussing AI's potential impact on complex systems.

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Ethan Mollick: AI poses new risks to complex systems

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  1. Bluesky Jetstream — AI desk TIER_1 English(EN) · emollick.bsky.social ·

    These 3 pages (from before AI) on complex systems are worth reading

    These 3 pages (from before AI) on complex systems are worth reading Complex systems run broken but survive because the flaws rarely line up, which allows humans a chance to intervene. AI can find or make aligned flaws. We need a similar new philosophy of system defense (beyond …