The Center for a New American Security posits that the next big threat from our future AI overlords involves "sovereign agents" acting on their own and regularly improving themselves. These are AI agents that operate outside of human control and “pursue open-ended, evolving survival,” AI policy researcher Ben Hayum said in a Tuesday report from the bipartisan national security think tank, which was founded by Washington insiders with experience in diplomacy and military affairs. “If sovereign agents are not already possible, they will be soon.” Agents that can maintain the model and compute powering them and independently evolve their goals over time have a “minimal form of sovereignty,” Hayum wrote. A more advanced sovereign agent, however, could also acquire resources to pay for ongoing…