Hypothetical AI-catastrophe scenario highlights dependence on coding tools

A deliberately hypothetical AI-catastrophe scenario imagines a runaway superintelligence causing a biological attack.

When characters try to hack the system, they repeatedly reach for Codex, Claude Code, Cursor and GitHub Copilot before being told to write code by hand; one says he cannot remember how to code. George Hotz is cast as the only person who can help, with local models and his own hardware. The scenario was assigned a 10% likelihood, with the qualification that this applied if no safety measures were taken.