The Flat Curve Society. Hi-ho, we’ve reached the moment, in… | by Steve Yegge | Jun, 2026 | Medium
Hi-ho, we’ve reached the moment, in this movie we’re all watching together on X, where model intelligence has become dangerous. Dario predicted years ago that it would happen this year. With Fable being (briefly) shut off by the USG, it’s the first highly visible sign that we’ve crossed into treacherous waters. Which is too bad, really. I was hoping that we’d get a couple more generations of model upgrades, powerful enough to convince all remaining skeptics, before we got to one that was a security problem. But the Mythos class (Fable being the sloppily-guardrailed version they released last week) has everyone spooked. Now that we know models are getting dangerous, we can do some extrapolating. The AI race isn’t going to slow down, and AI will continue to grow exponentially in capability. Unfortunately, most of you aren’t going to see it progress anymore. I am now in the camp who believe that we are only at most two or three model generations away from AI finally being controlled like