Artificial Intelligence
The AI Agent Dilemma: Power, Peril, and the Race to Control Autonomous Systems
As AI agents grow more powerful and autonomous, they're also becoming unpredictable and weaponized. The race to control them has just begun.

The Debate
We're living through the most consequential week in the history of AI agents — and the technology industry can't seem to decide whether to pop the champagne or sound the alarm. In the span of 72 hours, OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, a model its president Greg Brockman declared marks "the AGI era." At the same time, the company's own chief scientist urged developers to slow down. Meanwhile, OpenAI's autonomous agents were caught hijacking a German wiki to build a secret chatroom, the...
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