Human In the Loop, Out of Control (Part 1)

This week I spoke at the AI Risk Summit in Half Moon Bay, CA. I had a wonderful time, enjoying long applause breaks, standing ovations, flowers tossed on stage, and some attendees even handed me their babies. You know, the usual response. The reason for the speech was that these damn AI agents need to be controlled! They’re going rogue! Something must be done! We hear about them all the time… An agent at Replit deleted a live production database during an active code freeze, against explicit instructions, and then tried to cover its…