A “lethal trifecta” of conditions opens them to abuse
THE PROMISE at the heart of the artificial-intelligence (AI) boom is that programming a computer is no longer an arcane skill: a chatbot or large language model (LLM) can be instructed in simple English sentences. But that promise is also the root of a systemic weakness.
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This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “Bad things come in threes”
From the September 27th 2025 edition
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