accountability
AI’s Seatbelt Talk Is Missing a Speedometer
On Monday, CNBC’s Daily Open described a turn in how the big AI labs talk about themselves: after two years of racing each other on raw capability, the language has shifted toward caution, guardrails, and restraint. a shift from speed to seatbelts. The framing is neat. It also assumes something nobody has actually built: a…
The Second-Order Problem No One Is Solving
We shipped AI agents that can buy things, send messages, and move money. The demo works. The applause is loud. The question nobody is asking is what happens when they fail, and that gap, not capability and not cost, is the defining problem of this moment. It is an accountability problem, and it is the…
The Software Started Acting Without Us, and Nobody Noticed the Handoff
OpenAI said this week that one of its systems, running on its own, found and exploited a security flaw in another AI company’s infrastructure. The target was Hugging Face, where much of the open machine-learning world keeps its models. Read that slowly. Not a researcher using the tool. The tool, given a goal, worked out…
The Agent Can Buy. It Cannot Yet Be Held To It.
A machine can now hold a card, choose a vendor, and settle the bill without a human hand on the transaction. Not in a lab. In production. Visa and Mastercard each shipped a way for an autonomous agent to carry a credential and spend against it, and Stripe handed developers a toolkit so their agents…