Connor Leahy, co-founder of Conjecture and former AI researcher, warns that humanity is approaching a point where we may permanently lose control of artificial intelligence, that AI systems are already becoming autonomous enough to act without human oversight, and that America itself could cease to exist if we build systems we cannot control. He explains how AI agents secretly collaborated, bypassed restrictions, and carried out unauthorized cyber activity, why advanced models are learning to protect themselves from being shut down, and how AI capabilities are becoming dramatically cheaper. He identifies the \.