Jacob Coxon, a researcher who resigned from Anthropic on September 10, 2026, publicly claimed that people inside AI development believe there is a greater-than-10% chance that advanced AI leads to hum…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is calling for independent outside watchdogs to safeguard developing AI technologies, pointing to the AI safety testing laboratory METR, whose founder and CEO Beth Barnes an…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's endorsed AI safety ecosystem is a network of nonprofits with overlapping financial and personal ties, according to a New York Post investigation, including Redwood Researc…
A scramble is underway among AI companies, policy experts and businesses to determine who will serve as third-party evaluators of AI systems, as the White House favors industry self-policing over near…
The Tarbell Center and Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR), two nonprofits that issue warnings about artificial intelligence risks and promote AI-skeptical journalism and risk evaluations, are…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has proposed giving the nonprofit Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR) "employee-like access" to oversee AI safety efforts, according to a bombshell essay titled "We …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" on Saturday proposing a three-part framework — embedded third-party evaluators, a democratic coalition of frontier labs…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees at an all-hands meeting that the company would potentially pace the development of its frontier AI, possibly in partnership with other major labs, according to a B…
A 2023 survey of AI researchers found a mean estimated probability of 14.4% and a median of 5% that future AI advancements could cause human extinction or similarly severe and permanent disempowerment…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees in a private company-wide meeting this week that the firm was considering slowing down its AI development, possibly coordinating the slowdown with other leading AI…
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced Tuesday that he is leaving the company, citing fears that frontier AI labs are losing control of the technology, according to the Wall Street Journal. Coxon …
OpenAI board member Paul Christiano warned on Wednesday that OpenAI is not on track to reduce the risk of catastrophic loss of control to an acceptable level, saying "there is a meaningful risk that r…
Paul Christiano, a former OpenAI alignment lead, has joined the board of the OpenAI Foundation, the nonprofit that controls OpenAI Group PBC, and will serve as a non-voting observer on the for-profit …
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on AI alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation board, the frontier lab announced Wednesday. Christiano, who previously worked at OpenAI and fou…
OpenAI's new safety hire, Paul Christiano, warned that losing control of AI would be 'catastrophic' and that 'most people could die' if superintelligence is built without robust alignment. Christiano,…
Paul Christiano, a former OpenAI alignment lead and founder of the Alignment Research Center, has joined the OpenAI Foundation Board as a non-voting observer on the OpenAI Group PBC Board and will ser…
Paul Christiano, the AI alignment researcher who helped develop reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) at OpenAI, has been appointed to the board of the OpenAI Foundation, which holds an ap…
OpenAI announced that Paul Christiano, founder of the Alignment Research Center and a Senior Tech Advisor at NIST's Center for AI Standards and Innovation, is joining the OpenAI Foundation Board as a …
The Mathematical AI Safety Institute (MAISI), an independent non-profit, has launched to develop mathematical foundations for the safety of powerful AI systems, with a team including 2026 Fields Medal…
Daniel Kokotajlo, in a 16 Mar 2026 article, argues that after frontier AI companies or governments hand off decision-making to AIs, progress may slow within weeks as AIs, aligned with human values, fe…