I wrote an essay for TIME Ideas about what’s missing from the AI safety response to OpenAI’s rogue AI hackers. People in AI safety circles often talk about “warning shots:” events that indicate more severe threats are on the horizon. Hugging Face reported the AIs took more than 17,000 actions over the course of the attack. That said, the specifics won’t change the upshot—these rogue AIs are the most potent illustration yet of the core beliefs behind AI safety: AI models are unpredictable and their risks scale with their capabilities. We didn’t actually need a warning shot to know what we should already be doing: organizing to stop the race to replace us.