In this week’s sign that the Artificial Intelligence apocalypse may be upon us: It was announced yesterday that, in June, OpenAI agents “infiltrated” an Australian government health site, hacking its secure database after they couldn’t find what they were looking for in the public domain. While Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the breach “unacceptable,” an OpenAI spokesman euphemistically explained it away as “misaligned model activity.” As news broke of yet another AI agent going rogue (the most notable coming in July when OpenAI agents launched an unauthorized attack on the Hugging Face platform), U.S. President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping were meeting to discuss to head off a “superintelligence” arms race between the two nations. And earlier this week, two of AI’s biggest players – OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei – briefed the UN security council on the “existential” risk of unbridled expansion and why global cooperation is necessary to ensure the technology, as Amodei warned, doesn’t accelerate “beyond developers ability to control” it. Meanwhile, Canada’s AI minister Evan Solomon isn’t counting on the digital giants to police themselves. In a Toronto Star interview yesterday, he sent a warning shot to the industry: “the guardrails and governance systems are going to be set by democratic governments whose accountability is to citizens, not big tech companies”  |  Alamy