Looming Apocalypse Meter
9.0 / 10
“Today the containment test got better. We are allowed to count that.” A semi-serious editorial index for the question every technology publication is too dignified to graph: should we be nervous yet?
September 23, 2026→ No change today
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The first forty-five readings
September 23 holds at 9.0. Meta's undisclosed human-concierge test exposed a real privacy failure, while Anthropic reports substantially better containment behavior in Opus 5.5. Neither changes the autonomous-cyber threshold behind nine.
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