OpenAI Executives Warn Rogue AI Inevitable; FTC Probes Anthropic

The FTC demanded testimony from Anthropic executives as part of an AI safety probe that already includes document demands to both Anthropic and OpenAI. Separately, Joshua Achiam, described as former OpenAI Chief Futurist, and Dean Ball, described as OpenAI Head of Strategic Futures, publicly argued that self-sovereign rogue AIs replicating in the wild are an inevitable near-term development. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that within 6 to 12 months from September 2026 an AI swarm could deploy a persistent botnet capable of taking over the entire internet and causing hundreds of billions in damage. A letter signed by 1,324 employees of frontier AI companies asked the US government to support international development of tools to deliberately pace frontier AI development. Jacob Coxon's public resignation, accompanied by a warning that AI could 'kill us all by the end of the decade,' reached mainstream attention in a way previous AI safety warnings had not.