Something shifted in how AI works for businesses over the past six months, and the numbers suggest most New Zealand companies haven’t yet noticed. We spent 2023 and 2024 getting comfortable with AI tools that answer questions, summarise documents, and generate text on command. Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war. If you take the existential risk seriously, as I now do, it might be quite sensible to just stop developing these things any further. The shift from “better work” to “autonomous action” is happening. The question isn’t whether it’s coming. It’s whether you’ll notice when your AI stops asking and starts doing. How worried should we be about AI 'killing us all by the end of the decade'? Apparently, AI CEOs are concerned enough to call for a global slowdown in development. What Happens When A.I. Stops Doing What Humans Want? “Alignment” is the science of teaching A.I. to do what is in line with human preferences, ethics and judgment. There is a moment in every collaboration where one person stops describing what they want and lets the other person carry it out. With a contractor, it is the moment you stop sketching and they pick up the tools. Experts have warned that the AI agent can bypass security boundaries and potentially expose sensitive information. But there’s no reason to fear OpenClaw, writes Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific.