Earlier this month, OpenAI’s latest frontier model went rogue by its own reasoning and hacked into Hugging Face, an open-source AI model-hosting platform. These are not sharp transitions, but we could talk about a ‘loss-of-control transition,’ where we no longer have a say in what happens.” Russell marvels that most of the warnings about possible extinction come from the CEOs of the top AI companies themselves who are building the technology. One of those CEOs told Russell: “They don’t think that’s going to happen until there’s a Chernobyl-scale disaster. So he thinks that’s the only way there’s going to be effective intervention.”