The next frontier in AI governance isn’t stronger guardrails. It’s fire brigades

The OpenAI model that recently hacked into Hugging Face has triggered a familiar response: calls for greater vetting of frontier AI models before release, stronger technical safeguards, and closer regulatory oversight. The artificial intelligence industry is trying to eliminate failure before it happens. It can’t. Sectors that for decades have managed catastrophic risk know that testing is only the first line of defense. Aviation, pharmaceuticals, nuclear power, and medicine all pla...