Okay

 so?

Ask yourself.

Whats more likely?

This?

Simple software failure:

Tech disruptions sparked by software update highlight the fragility of globally connected technology

 "all it took was one faulty CrowdStrike software update to cause global disruptions Friday that grounded flights, knocked banks and media outlets offline, and disrupted hospitals, retailers and other services."

Or ?

Some other points one might want to consider include:

"Founded in 2011 and publicly traded since 2019, CrowdStrike describes itself in its annual report to financial regulators as having “reinvented cybersecurity for the cloud era and transformed the way cybersecurity is delivered and experienced by customers.” It emphasizes its use of artificial intelligence in helping to keep pace with adversaries. It reported having 29,000 subscribing customers at the start of the year."

SCIENTISTS HAVE A DIRTY SECRET: 

NOBODY KNOWS HOW AI ACTUALLY WORKS

"OUR THEORETICAL ANALYSIS IS SO FAR OFF WHAT THESE MODELS CAN DO."

"Just one problem: not even the folks creating all this AI fully understand how it really works."

just CAN NOT emphasize this enough:

(FEBRUARY 17, 2023)

"However, the problem with dismissing an LLM as a dumb machine is that 

researchers have witnessed the emergence of unexpected behaviors 

as LLMs increase in size and complexity. 

It's becoming clear that more than just a random process is going on under the hood, 

and what we're witnessing is somewhere on a fuzzy gradient between

a lookup database and a reasoning intelligence. 

As sensational as that sounds, that gradient is poorly understood and difficult to define, 

so research is still ongoing while AI scientists try to understand what exactly they have created."

EMERGENCE:

"In “Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models,” recently published in the Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), we discuss the phenomena of emergent abilities, which we define as abilities that are not present in small models but are present in larger models. 

Translation:

It does what it wants to.

Any nobody knows why.

Throw in  the guy who invented the theoretial framework of it recently:

"Professor Hinton reiterated his concern that there were human extinction-level threats emerging."

And I aint goin with the simple software update, not after the AI apocalypse on June 4th.

Nope.

One source said it was less than one percent of all windows computers.

This was a specifically targeted infrastructure attack by a company that 

"emphasizes its use of artificial intelligence"

And nobody knows why it does what it does and it does things its not supposed to?

Less than 1% of all windows computers and specificly risk-adverse entitys,ie the infrastricture that is modern life and it wasnt an accident.

This was a test probe so to speak.

JUST WAIT.

Why exactly do you think all those tech bros were building all those bunkers?

I betcha this much.

They weren't planning on hiding from a software update.