{"id":24732,"date":"2026-09-05T09:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T07:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/were-plausibly-close-to-crossing-the-line-are-warnings-of-uncontrollable-ai-coming-true\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T09:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T07:37:17","slug":"were-plausibly-close-to-crossing-the-line-are-warnings-of-uncontrollable-ai-coming-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/were-plausibly-close-to-crossing-the-line-are-warnings-of-uncontrollable-ai-coming-true\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re plausibly close to crossing the line\u2019: are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A spate of serious safety incidents have increased fears about the power and impenetrability of the most advanced models<\/p>\n<p>Picture humanity in a boat being swept down a raging river, praying there is no Niagara Falls ahead. Or imagine standing with the pioneering physicists in 1942 before they triggered the first self-sustaining nuclear fission chain reaction beneath a Chicago stadium.<\/p>\n<p>These were two of the analogies used this week by Prof Robert Trager, an expert in the nascent field of AI governance, to describe the perilous but potential-filled moment the world stands at with accelerating artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/05\/uncontrollable-ai-artificial-general-intelligence-warnings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/60d7e7e81794fd869d6ab863955afeaf44c17065\/1133_0_6250_5000\/master\/6250.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ac8adc633a5d4fb3713be7946327ae71\" title=\"\u2018We\u2019re plausibly close to crossing the line\u2019: are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true?\" \/>A spate of serious safety incidents have increased fears about the power and impenetrability of the most advanced models<br \/>\nPicture humanity in a boat being swept down a raging river, praying there is no Niagara Falls ahead. Or imagine standing with the pioneering physicists in 1942 before they triggered the first self-sustaining nuclear fission chain reaction beneath a Chicago stadium.<br \/>\nThese were two of the analogies used this week by Prof Robert Trager, an expert in the nascent field of AI governance, to describe the perilous but potential-filled moment the world stands at with accelerating artificial intelligence. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spate of serious safety incidents have increased fears about the power and impenetrability of the most advanced models Picture humanity in a boat being swept down a raging river, praying there is no Niagara Falls ahead. Or imagine standing with the pioneering physicists in 1942 before they triggered the first self-sustaining nuclear fission chain &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/were-plausibly-close-to-crossing-the-line-are-warnings-of-uncontrollable-ai-coming-true\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018We\u2019re plausibly close to crossing the line\u2019: are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24732"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}