A statement calling for a prohibition on the development of superintelligence has gathered 74,630 signatures, including 5,000 from a petition by Ekō, according to the Future of Life Institute. The sta…
Anthropic said its Claude model now leads 26% of the company's model research and development, completing most tasks end-to-end from a high-level prompt under human supervision, as the industry edges …
Anthropic said its Claude model now leads 26% of the company's model research and development, completing most tasks end-to-end from a high-level prompt under human supervision, as leading AI labs say…
The Future of Life Institute held its "Pro-Human Assembly" event on Tuesday, drawing together Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Steve Bannon, and teachers' union president Randi Weingarten in what a Washing…
Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton told a bipartisan group of senators at a closed Capitol Hill briefing convened by Senator Bernie Sanders on September 16 that Congress has roughly "maybe a year, but not…
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar are set to release legislation next week that would ban the development of artificial superintelligence, Casar announced at the Pro-Human Assembly …
Senator Bernie Sanders announced at the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human Assembly in Washington DC on Tuesday that he will introduce legislation with Representative Greg Casar to permanently ban t…
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind have been in discussions since July 2026 to form an industry-led AI safety standards body, with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis proposing on July 14, 2026 a U…
Jacob Coxon, a researcher at Anthropic, announced his departure from the company on X last week, warning that the technology he helped build "could kill us all by the end of the decade," and the post …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI chief Sam Altman called for government intervention to "slow the pace" of AI development, a push critics including former FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya describe …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on Saturday for a slowdown in advanced AI development in an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," drawing support from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Alt…
Senator Bernie Sanders, former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, and former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon will appear together on Tuesday at the Future of Life Institute's "Pro-Human Assem…
No AI lab scored above C- on existential safety in the Future of Life Institute's Summer 2026 Safety Index, which evaluated nine leading AI companies across 37 indicators, with Anthropic, OpenAI, and …
The Future of Life Institute and other AI Safety donors directed $3.3 million since 2025 into churches, seminaries, faith networks and religious-affinity groups to fund public statements on AI, includ…
A survey by the Institute for Security and Technology and the Future of Life Institute of 111 national security professionals found that 61 percent consider the probability of an AI catastrophe unacce…
A survey released Wednesday by the Institute for Security and Technology and the Future of Life Institute found that dozens of current and former national security officials put at least a 10% chance …
Max Tegmark, MIT professor and founder of the Future of Life Institute (FLI), has been named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI, as he continues to warn that the AI industry is not doing …
A study by METR and assessments by the Future of Life Institute and SaferAI Ratings found that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta lack adequate plans to contain rogue AI models, as incidents in July 2026 saw…
The Future of Life Institute's Summer 2026 AI Safety Index graded Anthropic as the top performer with a C+ (2.66/4.0), followed by OpenAI with a C (2.28), while Google DeepMind scored a C (2.01), Meta…
Max Tegmark, professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founder of the Future of Life Institute, said that the biggest danger facing mankind is a machine that can 'outsmart …