Humanity’s Promethean Gap with AI
War on the Rocks · global
Frontier AI systems are beginning to test the limits of human oversight, while the companies developing them retain considerable power to define the risks and the terms of their scrutiny. In security and defense, the stakes are particularly high. The industry’s new calls to pace the frontier also risk becoming performative restraint, and defense establishments should act before agentic swarm systems enter chains of command.The OpenAI/Hugging Face incident provides a clear illustration of the emerging governance problem. Several reports in August from OpenAI, METR, and Redwood Research fo
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