malevolent

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Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei recently cited horrifying scenarios if the technology falls into malevolent hands.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

“Or someone who’s so malevolent that they don’t care.”

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2025

“What’s fun about Laura’s perspective is Cherry seems completely unhinged and that there’s a real malevolent undertone to her behavior,” Cooke says.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2025

We know these animals are not malevolent, just trying to survive, and so the traps dispatch them with as little suffering as possible.

From Slate • Aug. 8, 2025

“We inhabit the eye of the swamp, Ivanito,” she warns, tightening the shutters against malevolent rays.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García