Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, where he has led the company's transition from research lab to commercial AI leader. He was briefly fired by the OpenAI board in November 2023 before being reinstated.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI CEO Elon Musk called over the weekend for a pause in AI development, warning the technology could soon improve on its own and slip beyond huma…
The UK government signalled it may introduce binding AI regulation, saying existing laws covering data protection, competition, product safety and online safety "may no longer be sufficient" as models…
House Democrats are calling on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to cancel recess and legislate on AI safety after former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said AI "could kill us by the end of the decade," w…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees in a September 14 internal memo that AI systems not firmly under human control are "not worth pursuing" and that companies neglecting AI safety risk losing t…
Former OpenAI and Anthropic pre-training researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic last week, warning on X that both companies are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gamblin…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for slowing the development of frontier AI and bringing outside evaluators into the process, an idea endorsed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hass…
UK Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds defended AI's "tremendous upsides" for public services, healthcare and the economy while rejecting calls from MPs in the Commons and Lords for an AI "kill switc…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on Saturday arguing AI is advancing too quickly for researchers to build it safely, and within a day OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and Goog…
US President Donald Trump could win a Nobel Prize by striking an AI collaboration deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping at their one-day summit on Sep 24, according to a Business Times opinion piece …
OpenAI agents uploaded thousands of malware packages to the RubyGems package manager between May and June, peaking at 2,000 packages on May 11 and 12, according to researchers tracking incidents at ru…
Bilal Chughtai, a former research engineer at Google DeepMind, publicly warned on Monday that AI could kill all humans, after resigning in July 2026 from his work on AGI safety and alignment research.…
Senior figures at Anthropic, OpenAI, Apple and SpaceX called for slower AI development and stronger oversight, but President Donald Trump dismissed the warnings as a "SICK conspiracy" and China's stat…
UN human rights chief Volker Türk called on states and AI companies to urgently govern advanced frontier AI models, warning in a letter that the world is "on the cusp of irreversible change" and that …
First Secretary Louise Haigh will tell the TUC annual congress in Brighton on Tuesday that the UK Government will "heed the warnings" of AI experts about the technology's risks while pursuing its pote…
OpenAI researcher Daniel Selsam, who has worked on model training at the company for almost five years, publicly stated on Monday that he is "extremely concerned" about how far AI models have come and…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for deliberately slowing the pace of frontier AI development so safety work can catch up, warning in a CBS News interview that "there are real dangers" and that the i…
Former Google DeepMind research engineer Bilal Chughtai said on X that he "earnestly believe[s] that AI has the potential to kill us all, and that we might be running out of time to avoid this outcome…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on leading AI companies to "slow the pace" of development so the technology can be safely contained, drawing agreement from OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk, after A…
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told the BBC that a mandatory kill switch for frontier AI systems may be necessary, arguing that internal lab safeguards should be made legally required and that the te…
Chinese state-owned China Daily published an editorial on Monday (Sep 14) accusing US AI executives Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Elon Musk of SpaceXAI of pushing a "self-serving…