But AI could certainly make some poor choices and cause havoc - if AI messed up Walmart's refrigerator configuration that would be 15x greater effect than France earlier this month, there would certainly be localized food shortages:

> On 11 October 2026, an unknown party hacked into the refrigeration controllers at up to 700 French supermarkets[2] and set them to defrost mode overnight, causing their refrigerators to overheat.

There must be many situations like this entrenched in industries that could be brought to their knees maliciously or accidentally - even where there should be security like eMudhra the certificate authority:

> The affected refrigeration controllers each ran a web server reachable over the public internet, many of them[2] accessible using login credentials 'admin' as the username and the current date as the password.

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