From assistants to adversaries

The large language model (LLM) was supposed to be an assistant. We expected a tool that would tidy up prose, summarise the sludge of corporate reports, and perhaps produce serviceable computer code. For a moment, that seemed like the ceiling. Executives glimpsed a way to speed up the treadmill without changing the machine. That assumption is now breaking. We are moving away from systems that help and toward software that operates.