Capabilities + Risks

Why AI reading science fiction could be a problem

The theory that we’re accidentally teaching AI to turn against us

Dec 9 • Lynette Bye

The perils of AI safety’s insularity

By building their own intellectual ecosystem, researchers worried about existential AI risk shed academia's baggage — and, perhaps, some of its…

Dec 4 • Celia Ford

Claude can identify its ‘intrusive thoughts’

“I’m experiencing something that feels like an intrusive thought,” Claude said in a recent experiment

Nov 13 • Celia Ford

AI doesn’t need to be general to be dangerous

There’s more to AI safety than the AGI debate

Nov 11 • Shakeel Hashim

AI cyberrisk might be a bit overhyped — for now at least

Experts say key factors currently limit the risk of catastrophic harm from AI-enabled cyberattacks — as far as we know

Oct 20 • Chris Stokel-Walker

AI is advancing far faster than our annual report can track

Opinion: Yoshua Bengio, Stephen Clare and Carina Prunkl run through the rapid developments that necessitated an early update to their International AI…

Oct 15

AI and synthetic DNA could be a lethal combination

Stronger gene-synthesis screening is vital to closing off AI’s ability to enable man-made pandemics

Oct 13

We’re all behind The Curve

Transformer Weekly: GAIN AI Act, China’s rare earth crackdown, and AI bubble talk

Oct 10 • Shakeel Hashim and Celia Ford

AI models are getting really good at things you do at work

A new OpenAI benchmark, GDPval, tests AI models on things people actually do in their jobs — and finds that Claude is about as good as a human for…

Oct 2 • Celia Ford

Claude Sonnet 4.5 knows when it’s being tested

Anthropic's new model appears to use "eval awareness" to be on its best behavior

Sep 30 • Celia Ford

When AI starts writing itself

Why automating AI R&D could be the most dangerous milestone yet

Sep 29 • Lynette Bye

Can open-weight models ever be safe?

Opinion: Bengüsu Özcan, Alex Petropoulos and Max Reddel argue that technical safeguards, societal preparedness, and new standards could make open-weight…

Sep 17

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