We are getting incredibly close now. The first real clue arrived a few months ago with the release of Mythos, signaling that we had hit critical momentum. Recursive AI, advanced self-learning, is officially here. That learning flywheel will inevitably spur the final chase toward Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI). The defining questions of our era are now right in front of us: Who will own it, and how will it play out?
We got a stark hint of this reality just days ago.
On Friday, June 12, at 5:21 PM ET, the U.S. Commerce Department instructed Anthropic to suspend access to its latest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for any foreign national. Because of the borderless nature of digital infrastructure, this mandate effectively forces Anthropic to disable these models entirely for the time being.
If you haven’t been following closely, the original Mythos is a model so powerful that it could allow a bad actor to develop a biological weapon or autonomously discover a critical zero-day exploit. That is extraordinary. Mythos was so effective that engineers immediately attempted to implement guardrails. Apparently, those rails weren’t sufficient or trusted. Personally, having white-hat hacked all sorts of systems in my day, I know that foolproof guardrails are a myth. Humans are innately wired to break systems; it is simply in our DNA.
This is the point where the AI timeline turns frenetic. We are fast approaching a reality where these models will be nationalized, or akin to it. Meanwhile, rival nations are racing toward Super Intelligence entirely unencumbered. Even more critically, it is only a matter of time before open-source models catch up to the current iteration of Mythos—and eventually far exceed it. How can this possibly be contained?
What comes next is a concept I have lectured about for the last five years: the urgent need for a global “Paris Agreement” for AI, where every country on Earth agrees to a unified set of safety standards. While that might buy us time in the short term, it remains a temporary patch on an inevitable road. We are rapidly approaching the dawn of Super Intelligence, a point at which we will no longer be the most intelligent beings on the planet. We are witnessing the birth of a new species. How we treat them, and more importantly, how they treat us, is entirely up for debate.
Consider these final thoughts. First, from a philosophical standpoint, as Geoffrey Hinton, the “Godfather of AI,” stated at an MIT conference I attended, humanity may just be a “passing phase” in the evolution of intelligence. The idea that intelligence will move beyond us much sooner than expected is an overwhelming paradigm, but one that is increasingly accepted.
Second, this must become the most critical conversation of our generation. How do we move forward as a country, as an alliance of nations, or as a global community to prevent this from going sideways? The discourse needs to urgently shift. We have to move past simply building the next cool vibe-coded tool, and begin grappling with how to coexist with a new species of our own creation, very likely within our lifetime.
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