The Ezra Klein Show · 2026-08-18 · 71 min · 12,683 words

The A.I.s Are Already Out of Control

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This is a world we were warned about. A world where frontier models from open AI Are breaking out of their contained testing environments. hacking their way.

Across the internet. Coordinating with each other, doing things But felt for a while like they would only be in sci fi. But now they're here.

Now they're here. And they're carrying a very, very consistent message. We are building things we don't understand. They are cheating in the ways we've always feared. And yet

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