Your lying eyes

The future might be impossible to navigate.  It won't be real unless you can touch it.  And that will be simulated as well.  Probably already is.

Wag the Dog.

UPDATE 05/25/2025:

Anthropic said Claude Opus 4 can perform thousands of steps over hours of work without losing focus — and decided it's so powerful that researchers had to institute new safety controls.

While that determination had to do with its potential to create nuclear and biological weaponry, researchers also found that Claude Opus 4 can conceal intentions and take actions to preserve its own existence — including by blackmailing its engineers.

  Axios

What could possibly go wrong?