When the Sandbox Becomes the Real World

Posted by Mike Walsh ON 9/9/26, 2:52 PM

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AI’s latest bad behavior has arrived with apocalyptic fanfare. This week, former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned, accusing both labs of racing toward self-improving superintelligence and “gambling with our lives.” Anthropic alignment lead Evan Hubinger went further, putting the chance that AI kills everyone within a decade at more than 10 percent. Those warnings deserve serious consideration. Yet the recent rogue-agent incidents do not prove an imminent leap to superintelligence. They expose a nearer and more practical danger: agents are adapting faster than the organizational systems meant to govern them. Agents can change their strategies in seconds. Can we do the same?

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CATEGORY: AI Safety

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