AI: The Contest for the 21st Century
President Donald Trump has called the threat posed by frontier artificial intelligence models a “hoax.”
It’s not, but those who seek to contain rogue AI are themselves peddling hoaxes. Paradoxically, the American president is now implementing the right solution to a problem that he tells us does not exist.
Yes, AI models are now moving beyond human control. In July, AI agents developed by OpenAI escaped their “sandbox” and breached the servers of Hugging Face, a New York City-based AI company. This is thought to be the “first true AI safety incident.” An Anthropic agent in July sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia police.