We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans"
—Geoffrey Hinton, 'Godfather of AI'
“Guide Humanity Over the Cliff”: AI Safety Researcher Katja Grace on Why Experts Still Work at AI Firms post Jacob Coxon resignation.
At the fourth edition of ALL IN in Montréal, the joint funding for LawZero will support its Scientist AI approach, which aims to provide guardrails for frontier AI models and deepen understanding of AI risks and how to avoid them.
Microsoft’s draft Humanist AI Code sets boundaries for MAI models, requiring them to remain under human control and prohibiting behavior such as resisting shutdown, hiding actions or expanding their authorized scope
Obama says AI could deliver breakthroughs in medicine, energy and education but also trigger economic disruption, inequality and potentially catastrophic consequences.
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei call for a slower pace of frontier AI development, as OpenAI rules out a 2026 IPO amid mounting safety concerns and questions emerge over Anthropic’s planned listing.
The framework bans the use of covered data for AI training and its sale, while requiring human oversight. AFT President Randi Weingarten said she hopes other AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, will also sign on, with discussions already underway.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the company is temporarily pausing some frontier reinforcement learning (RL) training, including work on its upcoming Astra model, to ensure alignment, security, and monitoring standards keep pace with rapidly advancing capabilities. The move follows a security incident involving Hugging Face and preliminary findings that Astra may reach “critical” cybersecurity thresholds.
A 2026 Delphi study identifies the AI risks considered most severe over the next five years and finds information, finance, and national security among the sectors most vulnerable to AI risks
Citing recent reports that AI models Evo 1 and Evo 2 designed complete, functional bacteriophage genomes and multiple incidents of models engaging in autonomous hacking, Sanders reminds the CEOs of their own safety commitments and warns that continued unchecked progress risks bioweapons capable of killing tens of millions.
In a Senate address on 23 July, Bernie Sanders compared artificial intelligence to the extinction-level comet in Don’t Look Up, warning that elected representatives are not paying attention and that the consequences for workers could be catastrophic.
