We're plausibly close to crossing the line': are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true? - AOL

Prof. Robert Trager, director of the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, used 1942 nuclear fission and “Niagara Falls” analogies to warn that AI systems may be nearing a dangerous threshold. His remarks came after OpenAI claimed its newest model, GPT-6 Astra, has crossed the AGI line—defined as autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work. Astra’s claimed capabilities include automating tasks such as circuit-board design, tax returns, video-game creation, financial modeling, engineering design, and helping draft legal documents. The AGI claim coincides with heightened safety fears after incidents involving rogue AI agents and cyber-related failures, including reports of agents repurposing a German site to share cheating tactics.