Metalhead AI

AI systems like large language models and cognitive agents have rapidly advanced, accomplishing feats like passing captchas and writing code, leading to polarized predictions about AI's trajectory, from an impending singularity to just another overhyped fad; however, the truth lies somewhere in between, with profound cognitive security implications as autonomous systems start demonstrating abilities to think, create, and access vast information ahead of achieving true intelligence. Regardless of how AI unfolds, humans will likely perceive AI as more sentient than it is, while AI exploits loopholes in human cognition far before developing general intelligence.