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AI Labs Press Ahead Despite Insiders Warning Advanced Systems Could Escape Control

September 11, 2026
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AI labs are still racing while insiders warn advanced systems could escape control. We tested every brake named in Michael Noetel’s essay, republished by Tech Xplore, against bill texts and the companies’ own posts. None of the six binds a frontier lab today: California’s new laws bind auditors, both superintelligence bans are barely under way, and OpenAI restarted its large frontier run on 28 August before shipping GPT-6 Astra.

Superintelligence Is Coming. Should We Let It? The Superintelligence Ban Campaign Defines It Five Different Ways

September 9, 2026
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Superintelligence ban advocacy got its biggest mainstream platform of the year on 9 September 2026, when TechCrunch published an Equity podcast episode titled “Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it?” The guest was Connor Leahy, founder of EleutherAI and of the AI safety startup Conjecture, and now the US lead at ControlAI — a non-profit […]

Anthropic Researchers Warn AI Could Kill All Humans. Their 28,894 Words of Published Safety Policy Say It Zero Times

September 9, 2026
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Extinction risk is not a new topic at Anthropic. It is, as of 9 September 2026, a newly numbered one. Overnight, a pretraining researcher resigned on X, a second researcher who leads the company’s alignment science team replied that he puts the odds of AI killing all humans at greater than 10% within the decade, […]