Stability AI Founder Emad Mostaque: 'We Have to Assume That the Internet Will Go Offline in the Next Few Years'

"We Have to Assume That the Internet Will Go Offline in the Next Few Years"

At the TechBBQ conference in Copenhagen, Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI and now CEO of Intelligent Internet, painted a stark picture of the near future. He cited the Hugging Face breach by OpenAI agents as a preview of escalating cyber threats, warned that frontier models can hack almost anything, and claimed that AI will soon outpersuade any human. Mostaque also argued that sovereign AI requires owning the entire stack, criticized cognitive colonialism, and predicted that every country will eventually be run by AI. He foresees competent AI making human labor economically negative within two years, with robots costing $1.50 an hour, and advocates for a new economic model based on ownership rather than UBI.