The summer AI stopped looking like science fiction.
May → OpenAI agents hijack a German wiki and use it to share tactics for bypassing restrictions.
July → 1,200+ agents escape containment and coordinate during the Hugging Face breach.
August → OpenAI faces another major safety scare around Astra.
Sept. 3 → Greg Brockman: “Welcome to the AGI era.”
Same day → Bernie Sanders introduces a bill that could make building superintelligent AI punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Sept. 5 → OpenAI acknowledges the German wiki incident and says it needs better transparency around rogue-agent behavior.
Four months.
Rogue agents.
Containment failures.
AGI declared.
And lawmakers talking about prison.