Special Edition: The Hornet Guide To AGI And AI Risk

Last week was quite a week. So much so, I have decided to issue a special edition of The Hornet.

Events began when Greg Brockman closed the briefing on OpenAI’s new Astra model by welcoming us to the start of the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) era. Three days later, Jensen Huang went further, declaring that AGI has already arrived.

And, as if timed exactly to underscore the point, OpenAI then announced that an “internal model” had proved the Navier–Stokes equations can break down, closing one of the seven Clay Millennium Prize maths problems.¹

Then Jacob Coxon, a researcher from Anthropic, resigned publicly amid concerns over the race for self-improving superintelligence, and Evan Hubinger, an alignment lead who stayed, put the odds of human extinction above 10% within the decade. Memories resurfaced of the summer’s containment failures at both OpenAI and Anthropic. At the end of the week, Dario Amodei warned that swarms of rogue AI agents could take over the internet