Bilal Chughtai, a former Google DeepMind researcher who worked on AGI safety and alignment, resigned and warned Monday that AI "has the potential to kill us all," saying he is "not confident" superint…
OpenAI researcher Daniel Selsam warned on Monday that the rapid pace of AI progress has left him "extremely concerned," arguing that models are becoming so situationally aware that humans are losing t…
Former Google DeepMind research engineer Bilal Chughtai said he resigned from the lab over fears that AI "has the potential to kill us all," writing on X on September 14, 2026, that "frontier AI capab…
Bilal Chughtai left Google DeepMind's AGI safety team in July 2026 and publicly warned in a viral exit note that "AI has the potential to kill us all," joining the AI safety nonprofit BlueDot Impact, …
A BlueDot Impact Technical AI Safety project demonstrated that large language models (LLMs) can be trained to perform steganography, embedding hidden information in their outputs to evade monitoring. …
Overlap Research, with support from BlueDot Impact, found that supervised fine-tuning with self-other overlap (SOO SFT) reduced deception in large language models from 96-100% to 30.24% (Qwen2.5-14B-I…
A new community poll on AI alignment controversies has been launched by CaML, with a panel of 15 alignment researchers including Scott Alexander (ACX), David Manheim (ALTER), and Jeff Sebo (NYU) alrea…
A new personal preparedness guide argues that AI could dramatically upend the world within 2-4 years, citing forecasts from those closest to the technology. The author recommends actions such as helpi…
Cory Doctorow's new book 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI' accurately diagnoses present-day AI risks like power consolidation and automation blindness but wrongly dismisses catastrophic A…
At a BlueDot Impact panel on AI safety careers, attendees expressed frustration over the field's simultaneous claims of talent shortages and high selectivity in hiring. The author argues that genuine …