{"id":904854,"date":"2026-09-22T03:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T03:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/904854\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T03:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T03:10:13","slug":"hanes-it-was-the-wrong-target-but-vandalism-at-mila-speaks-to-the-growing-angst-about-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/904854\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanes: It was the wrong target, but vandalism at Mila speaks to the growing angst about AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vandals hit the wrong target when they <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/local-crime\/montreal-building-vandalized-covered-with-graffiti-referencing-ai-police-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">smashed the windows and scrawled<\/a> \u201cburn the data centres\u201d at the headquarters of Mila, Montreal\u2019s flagship AI institute, one night last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The people who defaced Mila\u2019s building were probably looking to send a message on the eve of <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/meet-scientist-ai-montreals-bid-to-leapfrog-chatgpt-without-killing-us-all\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">All In, a major tech summit<\/a> at the Palais des congr\u00e8s, amid heightened global warnings that the dizzying speed of AI development is moving so fast that humans may soon lose control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The past few weeks have been rife with alarming disclosures about AI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/litigation\/openais-rogue-agents-probed-hugging-face-weaknesses-two-months-before-major-hack-2026-09-16\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">going rogue during testing<\/a> and malevolent actors being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/09\/10\/us\/politics\/anthropic-ai-biological-weapons.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">thwarted from possible attempts<\/a> to get it to cook up new bioweapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vandals hit the wrong target when they smashed the windows and scrawled \u201cburn the data centres\u201d at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-904854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}