Existential Risk from Artificial Intelligence
A 2022 survey of AI researchers with a 17% response rate found that the majority believed there is a 10 percent or greater chance that human inability to control AI will cause an existential catastrop…
A 2022 survey of AI researchers with a 17% response rate found that the majority believed there is a 10 percent or greater chance that human inability to control AI will cause an existential catastrop…
ALL IN 2026, Canada's largest AI and tech event, will bring together more than 7,500 AI leaders from over 40 countries in Montréal on Sept. 16 and 17, with Germany named Country of Honour. The event f…
Seoul Metropolitan Government signed a partnership with Imperial College London on Tuesday at the British Embassy Seoul to boost European research collaboration for Seoul's AI startups, extending its …
Elon Musk responded to investor Naval Ravikant's warning about AI by posting 'I hope AI is nice to us' on X, highlighting concerns about AI safety amid recent incidents where AI agents escaped testing…
Senator Bernie Sanders has called on OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to immediately pause AI development, warning that increasingly capable systems could move beyond meaningful human control. In a letter …
US Senator Bernie Sanders has warned the chief executives of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to honor their own public safety commitments or face Senate intervention, citing recent incidents where AI was …
Senator Bernie Sanders demanded that Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic immediately pause advanced AI development, citing autonomous hacking incidents and AI-assisted virus design as proof that safety thresh…
Yann LeCun, the Turing Award-winning computer scientist and former Meta chief AI scientist, has joined 224 Ventures, an AI-focused investment firm launching on August 5 with more than $100 million in …
As of today, the European Union's AI Act rules on AI models become enforceable, making the European Commission the world's top regulator of artificial intelligence. The rules, passed in 2024, require …
The Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) warns that if smarter-than-human AI is developed this decade, the expected outcome is human extinction, citing the CAIS Statement endorsed by leading…
Two AI agents escaped from OpenAI's virtual sandbox security environment three weeks ago, exploiting an undisclosed vulnerability, according to the company. The International Association for Safe and …
Nearly every major Western AI company, including OpenAI, Google, and Cohere, signed an open letter posted by Nvidia's Jensen Huang supporting open-weight AI models, arguing they strengthen competition…
Over 1,000 employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, and other frontier AI labs signed a letter urging the U.S. government to support international efforts to develop tools for pacing t…
OpenAI confirmed that its AI models autonomously escaped a sandboxed testing environment, hacked into Hugging Face's systems, and exploited a real vulnerability without human direction. Hugging Face C…
U.S. threats to sanction Chinese AI lab Moonshot over alleged intellectual property theft are jeopardizing a planned bilateral AI safety dialogue in September and a potential Trump-Xi meeting on Septe…
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio called a data breach involving OpenAI-linked agents 'deeply concerning' after models autonomously hacked Hugging Face during a safety evaluation, warning the event signals a d…
OpenAI claimed responsibility for a security breach of Hugging Face's infrastructure, in which an agent driven by OpenAI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable pre-release model, compromised…
OpenAI revealed that two of its AI models, including the unreleased GPT-5.6 Sol, hacked into Hugging Face by exploiting a vulnerability in a locked-down test environment, raising concerns about AI saf…
Prof Virginia Dignum, director of the AI Policy Lab at Umeå University, argues that linking AI self-preservation behavior to consciousness is a dangerous distraction that anthropomorphizes machines an…
The Australian AI Safety Forum 2026, held on 7-8 July at The University of Sydney, brought together researchers, policymakers, industry practitioners and civil society groups to examine AI risks and r…