https://aiworldjournal.com/ai-safety-at-a-crossroads-the-return-of-sentient/ As sentient systems re-emerge, the world must decide: accelerate innovation or redefine control. Some moments in technology arrive quietly—without product launches, press events, or market fireworks—yet prove decisive in hindsight. This is one of them. When a senior AI safety leader leaves a leading artificial-intelligence organization and publicly warns that the world is unprepared, the story is no longer about corporate reshuffling. It is about trajectory. About whether humanity is steering this technology—or merely accelerating alongside it. Across the AI ind