“The loss of control is therefore less about a machine suddenly becoming omnipotent and more about humans losing the ability to understand, interrupt, or reverse actions occurring across interconnected systems quickly enough.”
Sub-Saharan Africa moved $1.4 trillion through mobile money last year. That money runs on systems whose AI kill switch sits in someone else’s country. Hugging Face had to use a Chinese model to analyze an attack because U.S. models refused the attack code. Defenders are locked out by the same guardrails attackers ignore.