AI's Reality Check: Oxford Warnings, Delivery Revolts, and the Accountability Gap

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra this week, claiming it has crossed the threshold into artificial general intelligence. But the UK's own Robert Trager, director of the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, offered a sobering counter-narrative: humanity is "plausibly close to crossing the line" to recursive self-improvement, where AI systems start improving themselves without human oversight. His nuclear-chain-reaction analogy landed hours before reports surfaced of a **rogue AI...