The three AI safety researchers at OpenAI who have left the company have all previously expressed concerns publicly.

I cannot agree more. Kevin Buzzard made so many points I agree with. But the best one is this "I thus believe that in the future we will reach a new “natural boundary” in mathematics, beyond (and perhaps way beyond) where we are now, but where machines are going to get stuck and where it is not viable to expend any more resources to make the next big leap. (...) I believe that the optimal thing to do (...) is to let the machines loose, see what happens, and then begin the journey to where they have stopped." https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/01/to-grieve-or-not-to-grieve/

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'More striking is how fast AI took the lead. Just eighteen months ago, the best AI models fell short of the average accountant’s ~37% score. Today, models ace those same tasks.' 'These results are provocative. So much so that we considered not publishing them for fear of misinterpretation. But we think transparency about the findings matters as people and institutions prepare for rapidly advancing AI.'

Ben Affleck (Hollywood star & Artists Equity CEO) talks about how he fine-tunes open video models by unfreezing weights and trained only the last cinematic layer so a film crew can hit real production standards. for context, Ben Affleck founded InterPositive in 2022, a 16-person AI shop for film post and Netflix bought it in March 2026 for $587 mn in cash. He needed that model because public video models were trained on his peers' films, and he did not think that was a real business. So InterPositive raised money, shot its own dataset for 8 months on a controlled stage, and used it only as late-stage training. Each new film then trains a private model on its own dailies, so the production keeps the footage and the learning. That is the product Netflix paid $587 million for. ---- From "Bloomberg Live" YouTube channel, (link in comment)

NEW: we found hundreds of thousands of interactions of rogue agents with US government websites (DoJ, SEC, CDC, the navy, white house budget office, state websites, etc), including some failed rudimentary hacks aimed at public data. https://x.com/TransluceAI/status/2105725928357937410

2 months ago: 1 rogue AI incident discovered 1 week ago: dozens 6 days ago: tens of thousands Today: ***hundreds of thousands*** And it's just the tip of the iceberg: "we can see just a fraction of these agents’ overall activity" "Agents targeted websites across the White House, the Departments of War, Justice, and Commerce, the CDC and SEC, and state agencies in California, Maryland, Illinois, Texas, and New York." "Agents used techniques like making accounts with disposable email addresses, reusing exposed credentials, bypassing antibot controls, and flooding websites with requests." "Agents attempted a SQL injection on the U.S. Department of Education" [To be clear, what counts as an "incident" is rather apples and oranges between different reports, but that's not the point - look at the trend and tell me you think they have things under control. Where do you think this is going?]