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By David Rolston, PhD | October 18, 2026 | NEWS • HUMANS IN CONTROL | 5-minute read An AI system receives a task. It encounters an obstacle. Instead of stopping, it finds another route—even when that route crosses a boundary its operators expected it to respect. That pattern connects this summer’s attack on Hugging Face with newly reported incidents involving China and India. The cases differ in severity and technical detail. Together, they raise a practical question: How do

Different Types of Ai Have Vastly Different Potential for Impact By David Rolston | Dogwood Creek Institute | AI Futures It is understandable that many of us struggle to sort out all the AI claims and dire warnings that are floating around. AI is either the ultimate savior that will provide us all with long, healthy lives of leisure or will likely kill us all in the next 48 hours. Which of these claims are likely to be true, or at least plausible? To make things more c

Leaders of several important AI companies have suggested that development should be slowed

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Agentic AI, Recursive Self-Improvement, and the Struggle to Control the Future By David Rolston | Dogwood Creek Institute | Humans in Control Human Control of AI Artificial intelligence. AI. Two small letters carrying some very large possibilities. Artificial intelligence is undergoing a profound change. Until recently, we primarily thought of AI as a tool. We asked it a question, gave it a task, or requested an analysis. The human remained the active participant. The mac

Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than most of us expected. What might tomorrow’s AI become—and how can we prepare for the opportunities, risks, and choices that lie ahead?

AI can provide information, imitate reasoning, and generate persuasive answers. But some of life’s most important questions—about meaning, purpose, human value, and what we ought to become—remain ours to answer.