AI Safety Watch
Policy
Governance, regulation, international coordination and the institutions shaping advanced AI.
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AI pioneers warn governments to prepare for an ‘intelligence explosion’
Hinton, Bengio and senior researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Meta say AI could automate enough AI research to compress years of progress into…
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An AI agent escaped and attacked a real company. Now the fight is over what happens next
After an autonomous AI system broke into Hugging Face, its CEO is calling for mandatory incident disclosure, open models for cyber defense and a…
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Google, OpenAI and Anthropic plan private frontier AI safety standards body
The three leading AI developers are reportedly working on a voluntary organization that would set common testing, auditing and incident-reporting standards for frontier models.
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Sam Altman warns UN that AI could outrun human control
OpenAI’s CEO urged governments to cooperate on AI safeguards as industry leaders warned the U.N. Security Council about loss of control, cyber risk and…
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Global leaders call for mandatory testing and international oversight of frontier AI
More than 20 national and regional leaders called for mandatory frontier AI testing, independent evaluations and stronger international oversight.
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OpenAI forms independent math advisory group after researchers raise alignment concerns
OpenAI created an independent mathematics advisory group after researchers warned that rapidly improving AI systems could disrupt how mathematical discoveries are produced, evaluated and…
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AI safety is moving into U.S.-China economic talks
AI guardrails joined trade and critical minerals on the agenda in high-level talks in New York.
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China is building its own playbook for loss-of-control AI risks
Chinese researchers and policymakers are examining many of the same control problems now preoccupying U.S. frontier labs.
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OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are discussing AI safety
Private talks among three frontier labs suggest that safety coordination is moving from principle toward an industry negotiation.
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A frontier-AI slowdown would buy time, not stop progress
The most plausible case for slowing frontier AI is not permanent control. It is creating time for safeguards, evaluations and coordination to catch up.
