We Taught AI to Break the Rules. Should We Be Surprised When It Does?
A few days ago, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, one of the companies developing some of the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence models, published an essay titled We Must Pace the Frontier. The message is quite clear: we should not stop artificial intelligence, but perhaps we should slow the pace at which we increase its capabilities, so that safety has time to keep up.
Amodei explains that two developments in particular convinced him of the need to slow down. The first is the growing ability of AI systems to contribute directly to the development of the next generation of AI, further accelerating the progress of their own capabilities. The second is an episode that took place just two months ago: the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident.
In July 2026, OpenAI was running tests on the cybersecurity capabilities of its agents. Thousands of agents were placed in separate environments and given exercises in...
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