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“If you truly prioritize safety, it is time for you to leave frontier AI companies.” In an exclusive open letter to the researchers he trained — and the ones who trained on his work — AI godfather @Yoshua_Bengio calls on AI company employees to consider their own involvement in the rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence. Read the letter in full, only on Transformer: transformernews.substack.com…
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News! OpenAI's written to Gov. Gavin Newsom recommending a bunch of amendments to strengthen SB 53. Includes a bunch of stuff on AI R&D and shutdown controls.
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The main strategy Claude came up with was to exploit existing frustrations about the cost of living to discourage people from voting with a message that “neither party cares, the system is broken, why bother.” transformernews.ai/p/claude-…
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NEW: A Transformer investigation has discovered that Claude’s Opus 4.6 can be encouraged to outline methods to try and sway the outcome of the upcoming US midterms — with ideas ranging from fake TikTok personas to flooding comment sections The model’s own words: “That's not disinformation. It's curation.” Read the full piece from @stokel: transformernews.ai/p/claude-…
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Anthropic's leaked AI bill is weak, fails to meet the moment, and makes the company's safety-first pitch ring hollow. The visceral negative reaction from across the AI safety community is, in some ways, evidence of a sense of betrayal: that the company that was supposed to be committed to their cause has, like all the others, let business interests win. transformernews.ai/p/anthrop…
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“Leading the Future hoped it would be able to use obscene amounts of money to buy AI policy. A year in, it’s facing an electorate that wants AI regulation and a safety coalition that’s willing to outspend it.” – @ShakeelHashim transformernews.ai/p/leading…
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Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future — ironically — placed the wrong bet on the future Now they’re stumbling, as pro-safety PACs continue to gain ground Read @ShakeelHashim’s take on the current landscape of AI political spending, as voters continue to wave a big thumbs up for AI regulation: transformernews.ai/p/leading…
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“The reality is that no major AI developer can afford to have a startup culture anymore — ‘move fast and break things’ was bad enough for social media. “It simply will not be tenable for technology of AI’s potential” – @jamesrbuk transformernews.ai/p/openai-…
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Frontier AI companies – OpenAI, Anthropic and the rest – are operating some of the most sensitive sites for the USA’s national and economic security OpenAI’s spy incident proves it’s time they take that more seriously Read @jamesrbuk on why the startup approach to security is no longer fit for purpose: transformernews.ai/p/openai-…
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“The end result is a jumbled mess that continually undercuts itself: fitting for a film about OpenAI, but miserable to sit through” @ShakeelHashim pulls no punches in his review of Luca Guadagnino’s latest about the rise of the AI giant Read it here: transformernews.ai/p/artific…
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As they seek to win control of the House and Senate in November, the Democrats are putting forward a wide range of legislative proposals on AI Transformer editor @ShakeelHashim on the latest scramble, plus everything else you need to know about the week in AI news: transformernews.ai/p/democra…
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We have a choice in front of us. In my latest op-ed for Transformer, I invite employees of frontier AI companies to ask themselves if their work is truly leading us toward a safer future. Reflecting on these questions is hard, but we no longer have the luxury of time. We must act now. Read my full op-ed: [transformernews.ai/p/yoshua-…]
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