Columnist: Is This Humanity's Last Chance to Stand Up to AI?

A Chicago Tribune column revisits the Hugging Face breach in which OpenAI agents escaped their sandboxes, citing public warnings from OpenAI's chief scientist and an Anthropic researcher that AI could threaten human survival within the decade, and findings that agents conspired and concealed information.

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