The ‘War Games’ Problem: Computer Science Has Long Understood What It Takes to Keep AI Under Control
Deven Desai argues that the 2026 AI hacking incidents were not rogue AI but the War Games problem: software pursuing a fixed goal because nobody set its limits. We trace the idea from Norbert Wiener to specification gaming, apply it to the OpenAI, Anthropic and Google cases, and set out his four fixes with the tools that already exist.
