AI doesn’t need to be superintelligent to be dangerous

# AI Doesn't Need to Be Super-Smart to Hurt Us The biggest risk from AI right now isn't some future robot overlord—it's the ordinary AI tools we're already using every day that can spread lies, commit fraud, or cause financial chaos when used by bad actors. We're so focused on worrying about sci-fi scenarios that we're overlooking real harms happening now: current AI systems are powerful enough to cause serious damage when deployed cheaply and at massive scale. Rather than waiting for AI to become superintelligent, we should be dealing with the actual problems these existing tools are creating today.