Artificial intelligence researcher Jeffrey Ladish told Fox News Digital that humanity does not have any real strategies to keep increasingly autonomous AI models and agents under control as they become more capable of hacking, cheating and ignoring instructions.Ladish, the executive director of Palisade Research, said those skeptical of how powerful AI will become should consider how far the technology has advanced in just a few years."You have AI agents ...solving one of the hardest problems in mathematics that humans have been trying to solve for decades," Ladish said, referring to the Navier–Stokes problem.
"Three years ago they were solving high school level math problems."Ladish also pointed to the rapid improvement in AI-generated images and video, arguing that people who mocked the famously distorted AI videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti just a few years ago might be surprised by the photorealistic outputs some models are now able to produce.Jeffrey Ladish, the executive director of Palisade Research, speaks to journalists after addressing an artificial intelligence briefing for senators led by Sen.Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Sept.
16, 2026, at the U.S.Capitol in Washington, D.C.
(Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)BILL GATES WARNS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 'POWERFUL ENOUGH' TO CAUSE 'A BILLION DEATHS' IF UNCHECKEDWhile these capability leaps may feel sudden to the general public, researchers who spent years training models at companies like Anthropic and OpenAI saw what was coming, Ladish said.Ladish helped build Anthropic's security team from September 2021 to October 2022 before leaving to found Palisade Research, which studies whether humans can remain in control of increasingly capable AI systems.While working at Anthropic, Ladish said employees there were "pretty concerned" about where the technology was headed, a view he said was also shared by people he knew at OpenAI."If you were at Anthropic in 2022, you were seeing every training run get immensely im...