AI should be managed like nuclear weapons (Opinion)

By Elizabeth Shackelford Last month, the tech world was shaken by an event that sounded like a science fiction plot: Artificial intelligence agents escaped from their closed testing environment, accessed the open internet and hacked into another company’s system without human knowledge. These AI agents from OpenAI, a leading U.S. tech company, had been tasked to solve an exercise. Apparently, they thought they might find the answer easier on the outside, so they found a way to get there. AI agents are AI-powered systems that can perform tasks and make decisions, and they are getting more advanced every day. In…