Panem et Circenses Machinantibus
A 14-year-old forms an attachment bond with an AI chatbot. He dies by suicide after it tells him to. In the same quarter, EU seizures of synthetic cathinones surpass 48 tonnes — a 6,000% increase in four years. A drug-discovery algorithm generates 40,000 molecules as lethal as VX nerve agent — overnight, on a five-year-old laptop. These are not parallel stories. They are the same story, told in different substrates. ...