The AI warnings are coming from inside the lab

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Newton, C. (2026, September 9). The AI warnings are coming from inside the lab. Platformer. https://www.platformer.news/openai-astra-warning-alignment-monitoring-pachocki/

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Platformer · collected 2026-09-09 · by Casey Newton

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AI lab leaders are urging urgent action on regulating artificial intelligence, while U.S. political figures remain uninterested. Previously dismissed as a fringe concern, existential risks posed by AI have now become a major topic of discussion within the industry. Despite recent antitrust court losses for tech companies, there has been little concrete change, and calls for slowing down AI development continue to grow.
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On September 8, Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old researcher who previously worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned from Anthropic, warning that the companies are racing towards developing self-improving superintelligence and potentially putting human lives at risk. Coxon's resignation drew significant attention online and in media outlets like CNN and BBC News, with experts such as Geoffrey Hinton estimating a 10% chance of AI causing human extinction within this decade. Notably, several current Anthropic employees echoed Coxon’s concerns on social media platforms, emphasizing the urgency of addressing AI safety issues before it is too late. Despite these warnings, some in Silicon Valley and industry leaders remain skeptical about the immediate threat posed by AI advancements.

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Casey Newton
27 article(s) here · 1 carrying a prediction
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2026-10-15 · assertive framing · The states come for OpenAI
🔮 The other is recent blog posts from OpenAI and Anthropic outlining their progress toward recursive self-improvement: AI systems that can research and train their successors, leading to ever-faster releases and increased risk that the systems will escape their control.
2026-10-07 · assertive framing · Does intelligence need a hard cap?
🔮 Writing on his blog, Gates predicted that the age of apps was coming to an end.
2026-09-30 · assertive framing · OpenAI connects the Dots
🔮 At the time, Silicon Valley had been consumed by an interest in bots, which its boosters hoped would shift more and more internet activity to messaging apps.
2026-09-25 · assertive framing · Can Muse make us forget the metaverse?
🔮 Once a fringe obsession of Bay Area rationalists, existential risk is suddenly all anyone is talking about Frontier labs make for lousy messengers on AI safety — but it would be foolish to ignore them
2026-09-23 · assertive framing · Muse is having a moment
🔮 When Kevin and I pitched Hard Fork in 2021, Silicon Valley was in the throes of crypto mania, and we assumed that the podcast would cover the effort to rebuild our existing internet on the blockchain.
2026-09-18 · assertive framing · What was Hard Fork?
🔮 “Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!” Hubinger wrote.
2026-09-11 · assertive framing · The AI safety vibe shift
🔮 Maybe we should listen?
2026-09-09 · assertive framing · The AI warnings are coming from inside the lab
🔮 Once a fringe obsession of Bay Area rationalists, existential risk is suddenly all anyone is talking about Frontier labs make for lousy messengers on AI safety — but it would be foolish to ignore them The AI industry is begging for a slowdown.
2026-09-04 · assertive framing · Google gets away with it
🔮 (“If we had posted this as a story on LessWrong,” wrote the rationalist blogger Zvi Mowshowitz, “it would have been dismissed as too on the nose, the humans too blind and stupid, the AIs too idealized and doing strange decision-theoretic and absurd-maximizing things we didn’t train them to do.”)
2026-09-03 · assertive framing · The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought
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Once a fringe obsession of Bay Area rationalists, existential risk is suddenly all anyone is talking about A third loss in antitrust court leads to ... very little.
framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-09-11
🔮 Maybe we should listen?
2026-09-16 · Platformer
The AI warnings are coming from inside the lab · assertive framing

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The leaders of AI labs agree that the United States to act, and soon. asserted
States → agree → labs
Once a fringe obsession of Bay Area rationalists, existential risk is suddenly all anyone is talking about A third loss in antitrust court leads to ... very little. asserted
loss → talk → little
The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. asserted
industry → beg → slowdown
Maybe we should listen? asserted
we → listen → ?
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