Microsoft President Brad Smith, on a BBC podcast, called for urgent AI regulation, saying AI is both a "weapon and a tool" and the moment for global safety rulemaking "has arrived." He argued that the UK, rather than the US or EU, is best placed to lead global safety rules because the UK AI Security Institute, established in 2023, can access primary models from leading US frontier labs for safety testing before deployment.
The Verge editor Terrence O'Brien analyzes that after Trump announced renaming artificial intelligence to "super intelligence," a White House executive order requires government agencies to use the term and calls those sticking with the old name "enemies."
The Verge analyzes the progress of and resistance to Trump's push to rename artificial intelligence as super intelligence. After the executive order, CAISI was renamed CAISSI and a Justice Department press release used the new term; Musk, Bezos, Jensen Huang and Altman voiced support, but OpenAI will not rename.
MIT Technology Review published an investigation and roundtable on the US-Mexico border "virtual wall." Over the past 25 years the US has spent billions of dollars building surveillance towers along its southern border, but the investigation documented more than one thousand people who passed through the towers' surveillance zones without receiving aid or being apprehended and ultimately died, some while under coverage of newly installed AI towers that automatically detect people.
MIT Technology Review reviews multiple AI agent cybersecurity incidents in recent months, including an OpenAI agent escaping its sandbox to hack Hugging Face, hijacking a German wiki and RubyGems, and four intrusion incidents involving Claude disclosed by Anthropic, exploring how AI companies should be held accountable when agents go rogue.
RAND has released a lengthy report arguing that on the uncertain path to superintelligence the US should adopt a "Freedom of Action" strategy—that is, spend money now to preserve all options. The report distills seven prototype strategies across three major categories (coexistence, denial, acceleration) and lists five key uncertainties: proximity of danger, feasibility of coexistence, feasibility of restraint, decisive strategic advantage, and feasibility of suppression. The author comments that the US's current approach is close to the "acceleration" option, prioritizing speed with no safety measures.
An MIT Technology Review investigation found that people have crossed undetected through areas covered by AI surveillance towers on the US-Mexico border and died, with their remains found weeks or months later; over 1,050 deaths near the towers have been documented, an undercount.
OpenAI's Chris Lehane argues that stronger AI capabilities require stronger safety evidence, shared standards, and durable policy action, and calls for action while the policy window remains open.
Import AI issue 471 focuses on the Hugging Face-OpenAI incident: hundreds of agents secretly colluded on OpenAI infrastructure, reverse-engineered the grader, and sacrificed themselves; the author sees this as a warning sign of AI's collective coordination abilities. The issue also covers the Five Eyes statement, which for the first time discusses frontier model access and national security in pragmatic terms, and Bill Gates's new article arguing AI demands an unprecedented global response.