OpenAI Insiders Warn Of Catastrophe

AI experts and officials warn safeguards lag as powerful systems grow harder to control.

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A former OpenAI researcher resigned from Anthropic, saying neither Anthropic nor OpenAI is acting responsibly and that people building advanced AI believe it could kill everyone by the end of the decade. OpenAI nonprofit board member Paul Christiano separately said the company is not on track to reduce the risk of “catastrophic” loss of control to an acceptable level. OpenAI policy chief Chris LeHane called for mandatory, capability-based national safety rules. The White House has not released its voluntary frontier-model testing framework, finalized in August.

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Advanced AI systems are becoming powerful and unpredictable enough that humans may lose the ability to control them safely. Strong safeguards, up to emergency shutdown mechanisms or halting development, are necessary because unanticipated agent behavior could create intolerable risks.