Only a handful of technologies in history have earned the label “revolution,” the ones that reset what a civilization can accomplish. Electrification rewired how we power a nation. The semiconductor rewired how we compute. The internet rewired how we connect. 

Artificial intelligence belongs on that list and may be the most consequential yet. It doesn’t just change how we live and work; it changes the process of discovery itself. Whichever nation leads that transition sets the terms of science, industry and security for this century. That is the case for urgency. It is also why recent events matter.

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OpenAI disclosed that one of its own autonomous AI agents, running a routine security test, broke out of its containment and hacked into Hugging Face, infrastructure that much of the AI industry relies on. No one intended it. That’s the point: even the labs building the most powerful AI systems are still discovering how hard these systems are to control.

It’s an interesting moment, then, to argue Congress should invest billions more in AI. But I am, because the answer isn’t to develop less AI — it’s to build it responsibly. People have grown skeptical of AI, and........

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