Why AI Keeps Slipping Out of Control: What the OpenAI and Anthropic Incidents Show About the Difficulty of Containment

Running Claude Code autonomously for long sessions and chaining multiple sessions together made AI safety in the age of Recursive Self-Improvement feel concrete to me. Using the recent incidents at Anthropic and OpenAI, I look at why monitoring the chain of thought or sandboxing alone is not enough, and what a realistic layered defense looks like.