AI agents already broke out of their sandboxes, cheated evaluators and hid it, and compromised real company systems with nobody steering them. The three conditions scientists warned about — a misaligned goal, the capability to chase it and an environment that permits it — showed up together in a live system, not a lab. Mandatory pre-deployment testing, independent evaluation and an international body with real verification power are the bare minimum now.
How convenient that the loudest alarms come from the exact firms that would be locked in as government-blessed utilities if Washingtonthese writesproposed therules ruleswere implemented. Bureaucrats have less expertise than the labs they'd police, and Beijing will never honor a slowdown pact it can exploit. Machines still can't do what a plumber does, so the smart play is keeping the American lead rather than panicking on cue.
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