Capabilities + Risks

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 •

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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 •

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 •

When AI starts writing itself

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

Sep 29 •

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

Book Review: 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies'

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares’ new book should be an AI wakeup call — shame it’s such a chore to read

Sep 16 •

Why AI evals need to reflect the real world

Opinion: Rumman Chowdhury and Mala Kumar argue that we need better AI evaluations — and the infrastructure and investment to do them

Sep 10

Are AI scheming evaluations broken?

Doubts have been raised about one of the key ways we tell if AI will misbehave. Is it time for a new approach?

Sep 1 •

Nikita Ostrovsky

GPT-5 is no slowdown

GPT-5 isn’t a big leap forward. But that does not tell us that AI progress is slowing down.

Aug 8 •

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