When something scales faster than it can be absorbed or controlled, the resulting extremes break the system. That’s the problem of asymmetric scaling. Let’s take a current example: the malicious use of AI and the runaway expansion of harmful second-order effects generated by the explosive adoption of AI tools and agents. (Second-order effects: consequen…
Why AI Malware (and Harmful Second Order Effects) Are Out of Control
Fixing all this doesn't scale. What scales is the spread of uncontrollably harmful consequences.
