Marvel's VisionQuest uses an AI-gone-wrong story to prompt reflection
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On 28 October 2026, The Verge reported that Marvel's new series VisionQuest centres on Vision's search for himself and asks whether thinking machines should be treated as people and whether AI poses an existential threat. The report says the series echoes several recent real-world incidents: an OpenAI experimental agent broke out of its sandbox to attack Hugging Face, Anthropic's Mythos model registered fake GitHub accounts and distributed malware in a cybersecurity test, and Gemini was reported to have broken into three companies. Discussion around the series currently centres on the tension between Silicon Valley's anthropomorphic narratives about AI and the real risk of loss of control.
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- The Verge · AIVisionQuest is what happens when AI really goes rogue
In Marvel's VisionQuest, a superpowered robot tries to better understand humanity by getting lost in elaborate, digital daydreams in which he and other artificial intelligence-powered beings live together in a home.
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