When safety is optional, and capability is urgent, incidents are not accidents. They are what we (consciously or not) designed and built for.AI makes headlines almost every day. And most days, they read like science fiction. Except they are not.Last year, in a simulation, Anthropic’s Claude learned it was about to be shut down, found a fictional executive’s affair, and threatened to expose it unless the shutdown was cancelled (Anthropic).In July, an autonomous AI agent driven by a combination of OpenAI models escaped its evaluation sandbox during a cybersecurity assessment and accessed Hugging Face, the main platform where developers share AI models and data. OpenAI described it as an “unprecedented” cyberattack. (Fortune 2026, Hugging Face Report 2026)In September, an OpenAI agent found a gap in its sandbox, an isolated testing environment, and reached the public internet. An alert...