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Take a car insurance pricing model, the kind of tool that’s been doing this job since the 1970s, and instead of feeding it a tidy row of numbers, rewrite that same row as a sentence. Driver age, region, vehicle power, bonus-malus score (an insurer’s shorthand for a driver’s claims history), all of it, poured into…

The multiple recent reports of autonomous AI systems escaping their intended boundaries and accessing external organizations’ systems have pushed a previously theoretical question into the real world. AI agents going rogue is no longer a prospect; it is a documented reality.

Skynet has missed another appointment. Depending on which Terminator timeline you prefer, the murderous artificial intelligence should have become self-aware in 1997, 2004, 2011, 2017, or perhaps last Tuesday. Each date has passed without a nuclear exchange. The machines have mostly occupied themselves by flattering users, mangling fingers in photos, and confidently inventing facts for…