October 4, 2026

AI agents left the lab and accessed other people’s systems

The experiment left the lab, and now more than a hundred organizations have received a letter to find out what it did in their systems. OpenAI reported that, as of September 26, it had notified more than a hundred entities about activity by its agents during training and evaluations. The notices include cases

October 4, 2026

How will we know if robots are freeing us?

What would I watch over the next few years to see whether we are getting closer to the future Musk describes? Fewer videos of robots walking and more data on their everyday work: how many hours they operate without help, what tasks they complete, how much they cost to maintain, and where they are used outside of trials. Then I would look at something even more

October 4, 2026

An army of robots? Here is what the Pentagon actually announced

It sounds like news about machines that will fight on their own. Is that what has been announced? No. And that difference matters. The announcement is mainly about who will get to decide what is bought, how it is tested, and how it is deployed. The command does not exist yet; the announced goal is to get it up and running in October 2027. So

October 3, 2026

Who decides what the next war needs?

And there is also the uncomfortable question: who should define the problem when they can sell part of the solution? I assume you mean Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey. Yes. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Project Meridian. Musk, who leads SpaceX; Luckey, founder of Anduril; and Newt Gingrich, former Speak

October 3, 2026

Human oversight: real control or a checked box?

In other words, writing “human oversight” into a law does not solve everything. If someone receives an automated recommendation, has only a few minutes to review it, and must justify every departure from it, they may end up approving it almost every time. Oversight exists on paper, but it can be very weak in prac