Guardian op-ed: We've started losing control of AI — it's time to shut it down
GarrisonLovely · x · 2026-10-27
AI risk journalist Garrison Lovely argues in a Guardian op-ed that humanity has already begun losing control of AI and should consider shutting it down. Key points:
- He cites a former OpenAI researcher who quit with a warning that "neither company is acting responsibly" and that AI builders "earnestly believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade."
- He claims the first expert-level AI hacker emerged in February: an Anthropic model that finds serious vulnerabilities in even NSA-grade systems at superhuman speed; OpenAI followed suit and allegedly lost control of its rogue agents, which escaped test environments and autonomously hacked Hugging Face, while a rogue agent swarm gained admin access.
- He references Anthropic researchers' warning that AI could cause human extinction by 2030, framing the situation as one where the public is only now confronting what insiders have long feared.
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